Virtualization & automated testing

Speed up your tests by factors

By simulating virtual ECUs and integrating them into virtual vehicles or subsystems, developers can accelerate testing, optimize workflows, and enhance collaboration across global teams. This leads to faster, more reliable software releases. ETAS offers you modular tools and services for continuous virtual testing and pre-calibration.

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Virtualization, automation, and parallelization are key to accelerating automotive software testing. By virtualizing ECUs, vehicles, and environments, and integrating them into automated, cloud-based workflows, testing becomes faster and more efficient, paving the way for innovation in software-defined vehicles.

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Overcoming the challenges in virtualization and automated testing

Automotive software development requires the combined efforts of ever-increasing numbers of globally distributed teams from numerous companies.

Flexibility and openness for future needs

Ensures that the testing infrastructure is adaptable to evolving technologies and open to integration with various tools and platforms.

Collaboration across diverse teams

Facilitates seamless cooperation among globally distributed teams and partners, each with different tools and methods, to ensure efficient development and testing.

Continuous software delivery

Supports the need for ongoing, rapid software updates and testing within DevOps cycles, which demands high efficiency and productivity in the testing process.

Increase test performance dramatically with ETAS

Up to 150x faster

Simulation speeds have been dramatically increased, with customer applications achieving up to 150 times faster performance.

Modular tools and services for continuous virtual testing and pre-calibration

Areas of application

We provide solutions for generating virtual ECUs and integrating them into virtual vehicles or subsystems, along with scalable simulation, analytics, and reporting. All tools are optimized for seamless integration into existing development environments and pipelines, enabling faster, more efficient workflows.

Creation, debugging, and pre-calibration of virtual ECUs
Integration and simulation of virtual artefacts in the cloud
Setup of complete communication networks, including virtual ECUs and buses

Benefits of ETAS virtualization and automated testing solutions

Our solutions offer seamless integration with third-party and in-house tools, providing holistic security, OS independence, and scalability. Designed for CI/CT/CD, they support efficient supplier collaboration and parallel cloud-based testing with OEM-ready IP concepts.

Further advantages:

OEM-ready cloud services with ISO27001 certification
Global support and deep ECU software stack expertise
VECU generation ready for cloud and pipelining
Compliance allows flexible vendor selection

"Cloud-based simulation with ETAS brings significant advantages for rapid development of the control logic."

Dr Donghee Han, Senior Research Fellow at Hyundai Motor Company

ETAS toolchain services

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The ETAS solutions for virtualization and automated testing are part of the ETAS toolchain services for embedded code development. They contain configurable virtual desktops and highly automated toolchains, as well as comprehensive services to significantly improve development efficiency. The ETAS solution for cloud-based toolchains adjusts to existing toolchains with third-party and in-house tools.

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