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Requirements Management: Traceability

Traceability is a sub-discipline of requirements management within software development and systems engineering and it mainly serves the purpose of accelerating and improving development activities. As a result, it also prevents software defects by visualizing relationships between components. Let’s describe…

Industry 4.0: Super Easy Explanation

The industrial revolution has gone through many phases to reach where it is today. It began from the days of manually operated simple machines to hydro/steam-powered machines. The next revolution was the era of electricity-powered plants and today, industrialization has…

Real-time database management systems for critical applications

In the most general sense, database management enables users to define, create, maintain and control access to the database. If we translate this into the sphere of critical systems, like avionics and aircraft navigation systems, driver assistance systems, critical medical…

Choosing a BIOS for an embedded x86 design

Which BIOS you can use for your embedded X86 device depends on a number of interdependent factors: Is this a one-time off design, or are you planning multiple designs and/or derivatives? Are you expecting to switch to newer CPU SKU’s…

The 3 critical elements of product development

When an engineer starts designing a new product, there are lots of things to take into consideration before even starting the actual development. It could be months into the development process when suddenly you realize that the hardware that was…

Shift-Left: Regression Testing

There are many different methods of testing your software. Regression testing is just one of many examples. However, they all share a common aspect, being that testing software brings along overhead costs in the form of time and tools. The most obvious reason for software testing is ruling out errors in the code, though there are other things we need to test for. We also need to compare the actual functionality of the device against its specifications. This aspect of testing is called requirement based testing.