As these devices grow in complexity, it has become a significant networking burden for project teams to confirm that software requirements have been tested and tests can be traced back to requirements. In many cases, even with extensive testing, teams might not know whether they have successfully met all of the product requirements.
Fifteen or 20 years ago, many Embedded Systems consisted networking of an 8-bit processor with a few KB of memory and perhaps a couple hundred lines of code. Today, the explosion of embedded systems in automobiles, ATMs, cell phones, and other devices has dramatically changed that dynamic. It’s not uncommon to see networking processors on an Ethernet network, running multiple applications totaling hundreds of thousands of lines of code in these systems.
