Power & Access Management in Continuous Integration (CI) — Session III

When embed­ded hard­ware tar­gets are used in develop­ment and test envi­ron­ments it often is required that a num­ber of dif­fer­ent users share access to these tar­gets:
Develop­ment engi­neers for develop­ment of new fea­tures and bug fix­ing pur­pos­es, test engi­neers for develop­ment, adap­tion and man­u­al exe­cu­tion of test cas­es and also the CI/CD infra­struc­ture is using the hard­ware in its pipelines to exe­cute auto­mat­ed tests.
To ensure prop­er oper­a­tion it is required to estab­lish a decent pow­er and access con­trol man­age­ment. Engi­neers and test infra­struc­ture need to be able to switch tar­gets on and off or pow­er cycle them via defined inter­faces. Lock and release mech­a­nisms ensure that run­ning oper­a­tions are not dis­turbed by con­cur­rent access attempts from oth­er users.
In this webi­nar we will show meth­ods to set­up pow­er con­trol (i.a. using our iSYS­TEM IOM6-ADIO mod­ule) and access con­trol for embed­ded hard­ware tar­gets as it can be used in embed­ded test stands and embed­ded test farms.

Who:

Matthias Scheid, Sys­tems Engi­neer, iSYS­TEM Ger­many

About iSYSTEM

We empow­er embed­ded soft­ware engi­neers to do it right!

Our Blue­Box Tech­nol­o­gy stands for fast and easy micro­con­troller access via any kind of debug inter­face. Com­ple­ment­ed with inte­grat­ed develop­ment and test soft­ware winIDEA/testIDEA it pro­vides access to on-tar­get tim­ing infor­ma­tion. Embed­ded soft­ware engi­neers can review appli­ca­tion tim­ing, ana­lyze real-time oper­at­ing sys­tem states, and under­take code cov­er­age to prove that their prod­ucts do what they were built to do.