Speakers

Balázs Vödrös graduated at the Technical University of Budapest as M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering. Since his graduation in 1998 he is with evosoft. In this time he has worked at several units of evosoft and Siemens. At the beginning he worked for the Semiconductor Unit of Siemens as software engineer in factory automation. After Siemens has sold this unit, he worked for 5 years as tool-smith in the integration test of the Sinamics drive family. Later he had worked as system tester and test automation engineer at the Industry Automation unit of Siemens. Since 4 years he works as test automation manager at the system testing unit of Sinamics S120 drive family and at the same time he is an expert of the Sinamics test automation core team.

What drives the drive tests?

A key issue of agile development is the existence of a unified test environment so that agile teams and cross-functional test teams may use and reuse each other’s testcases. But it is hard to define such an test environment in case of an electric drive family that was developped for more than 10 years in V-model. A well-suited test automation concept may facilitate this unification by describing interfaces. The definition of interfaces however leads to many issues that are not really technical.