Speakers

With more than two years of experience as a System Test Engineer in the automotive industry, Petra Boušková is working for the top engineering company in the Czech Republic in the department of Electric Electronic Validation.

She is a part of a company MBtech, which is well-known for its cooperation with almost all automobile manufacturers in the world, with Daimler as a main customer. MBtech focuses on vehicles’ innovations and covers all phases of V-Model development.

Soon after joining the company Petra started testing vehicle architecture (electronic control units) for buses and trucks for Setra, Mercedes Benz Travego and Citaro. She has wide experience in automation, specification, executions and analysis of tests. She currently holds a position as a consultant and has been leading training courses for her team.

In year 2016 she was participating in developing Automobile Suspension system testing strategy according to modified V-Model. Her daily bread was holding teleconferences and troubleshooting sessions with experts from all over the world. Last but not least, Petra achieved the ISTQB CTFL certification and in the Czech Republic she is known as the Face of MBtech Bohemia 20th Anniversary Campaign called ‘Be part of our success’.

But what Petra does is not only about testing, everything always starts with people. With a lot of research of drivers’ interaction with the world around them or behavior behind the wheel, she tries to help them live life less risky and complicated.

Testing within the automotive industry: We test it, you drive it

Imagine a car and all of its complex electronics system. As the customers are even more demanding in respect of vehicle functions, the number and complexity of electrical components has been rapidly increasing. And all of this goes down to the requirements for safe and smooth cooperation of every process. That’s why Automotive Test Engineers are here! Let me introduce you this exciting job. Consider a typical midsize car - in the early 1900s it had only around four electronic control units in total and around 300 meters of cables in general. About twenty years later a comparable one with 61 electronic control units and almost 4 kilometers of cables was introduced! In order to make it possible for the drivers to turn the ignition key on, to start the engine and to safely drive out of a parking place, again and again, it’s completely essential to test every single process carefully.

I would like to introduce you a typical process of embedded software testing in the automotive industry, which is based on the testing experience for one the world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Within the automotive industry embedded testing approaches have very specific characteristics. The need to test as early as possible, to test on multiple integration levels; under real-time constraints; with functional complexity; to provide interdisciplinary exchangeability; to facilitate continuous signal handling and many other requirements result in high demands on testing procedures, techniques, methods and tools.

The scope of the presentation:

• Motivation. Importance and particularity of the testing.
• Safety first. Necessity to keep safety standards.
• Unique V-Model. Tester’s daily bread.
• Mission possible. Strategy. Planning. Operations. Results.
• Testing solutions. Hardware in the Loop. Software in the Loop.

During these 30 minutes you will be pulled into this topic. Audience interaction based on short exercises and illustrative examples is the key for my presentation.