Distributed and concurrent test environments on popular COTS platforms

Author

Toal, Raymond J. ; Hayes, Robert G.

Author_Institution

Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

544

Lastpage

553

Abstract

Today´s automatic test system implementations likely require some aspect of real-time performance, concurrency, and network connectivity. Users expect responsive, efficient operation, both at the local operator interface as well as remotely via a LAN or the Internet. Distributed, concurrent COTS software systems, such as Sun Microsystem´s Java and Microsoft´s Win32 are a natural fit to these requirements. Based on real-world experience developing distributed, concurrent test systems, this paper reviews some of the unexpected obstacles implementers might encounter. We discuss the creation of threads, thread scheduling, and the use of thread synchronization constructs. We compare these mechanisms to those available in IEEE Standard ATLAS and test-specific programming frameworks

Keywords

Java; automatic test equipment; multiprocessing systems; object-oriented programming; real-time systems; scheduling; COTS platforms; Java; Win32; automatic test system implementations; concurrency; concurrent test environments; local operator interface; network connectivity; real-time performance; thread scheduling; thread synchronization; Automatic testing; Concurrent computing; Internet; Java; Local area networks; Real time systems; Software systems; Sun; System testing; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON Proceedings, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1080-7725

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5868-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885638

Filename

885638