S2 Technologies :: Optimizing Integration™

"Continuous Integration: Managing Software Complexity for Consumer Electronics"

Join Alain Levesque, Director of Software Validation, LSI Logic and Mark Underseth, Founder and CEO, S2 Technologies as they discuss how to apply automated software verification and continuous integration to manage the increasing complexity of embedded software for consumer devices.

Embedded software engineering for consumer electronics has the unique challenge of not only developing and delivering increasing functionality and features, but also validating and productizing software across a variety of hardware platforms for a product family.

Developers of increasingly sophisticated consumer devices – DVD recorders, set-top boxes, wireless handsets, PDAs, MP3 players, and others – need effective processes to:

manage the complexities of integrating and verifying embedded software components implemented by developers, contractors, and third party vendors throughout the world
validate and maintain the software baselines and derivatives across many variants of embedded hardware platforms

To address these challenges, leading companies are implementing automated software verification and continuous integration as an effective strategy for their embedded development.

In this web seminar, we’ll discuss implementing automated software verification and continuous integration in the embedded development process.

Automate: Produce reusable automated test assets that can be leveraged continually and in derivative projects.
Increase Visibility: Gain continuous visibility into the robustness and completeness of project software
Manage: Manage projects and resources more effectively with continuous visibility and feedback into software quality.
Maintain a Stable Code Base: Automate verification of software baselines and derivative branches across a plethora of hardware platforms, ensuring a stable, validated code base
Transform the Process: Continual, automated testing leads to a more robust software process for large-scale, complex embedded development

Presenters
Alain Levesque
Senior Director of Software Validation
LSI Logic, Consumer Products Group
Alain Levesque leads the Software Validation & Tools Group for LSI Logic's market leading Consumer Products Division, a hardware/software solutions provider for DVD recorders and broadcast encoders. With over 16 years of software engineering management, Alain strives to apply and evolve best practices for effective software development, especially as the level of complexity continues to increase in the embedded software domain.

Mark Underseth
Founder and CEO, S2 Technologies
Mark founded S2 Technologies in 2000, bringing over 20 years of experience in the design of embedded communication devices, including mobile satellite, automotive, and digital cellular products. Mark will discuss how the challenges of larger distributed development teams and increasing embedded software complexity are driving paradigm shifts for software development.