Software-based test-system architectures have become increasingly popular over the past several decades. As test applications become more complex, engineers are continuously challenged with the ...

A version of this article also appeared in the May 2012 issue of Test & Measurement World. See the PDF. Test engineers have used open standard interfaces since1975, when the IEEE approved IEEE 488, ...

Cybersecurity has become intertwined into each step of the automotive development process. In particular, fuzz testing has proven to be a powerful approach to detect unknown vulnerabilities in ...

Engineering innovations are a critical cornerstone in the evolution of technology, but ironically there haven’t been as many innovations in engineers’ tooling itself. Now, a startup called Liquid ...

LabVIEW 7.1 graphical development software extends its recently announced Express technology to automated instrumentation and real-time applications. The software version includes five new Express ...

It’s a fair bet that anyone regularly reading Hackaday has a voltmeter within arm’s reach, and there’s a good chance an oscilloscope isn’t far behind. But beyond that, things get a little murky. We’re ...

On August 6, the scientific and engineering community around the world was transfixed on the final moments of the NASA Mars Curiosity rover landing. Many of us are still mesmerized by the images ...

Automated software testing plays an important role in ensuring quality at every stage of software development. This article discusses how to get started using Python’s Robot Framework. Every code ...