During this lesson your platform is accessed. If you use other platforms than VEOS, you have to consider the following note that is relevant for dSPACE real-time hardware.
To avoid risk of injury and/or property damage, you must read and understand the safety precautions. Refer to General Warning.
This lesson describes how to perform the example task for implementing a test by using a standardized test scenario that you can configure by specifying the involved signals. For more information, refer to Example Task for Implementing Tests.
The following preconditions must be met:
If you want to access dSPACE real-time hardware, it must be installed and connected to your host PC. For more information, refer to the hardware-specific Installation and Configuration Guide.
If you want to access VEOS, VEOS must be installed and running on your host or on a connected PC. For more information, refer to Introduction and Overview.
The AutomationDesk demo projects must be available in your Documents folder. They are usually copied to the Documents folder the first time you start AutomationDesk. The copied demo projects include the simulation application used in this lesson.
The platform that you want to access must be registered. For more information, refer to the previous lesson.
The simulation application to be accessed must be downloaded and started on the platform. For more information, refer to the previous lesson.
You must know how to edit AutomationDesk projects and how to edit, parameterize and execute automation sequences and blocks (refer to lessons 1 to 3 in this tutorial).
In this lesson, you will learn how to access your simulation platform to read and write variables.
You will add a signal-based test case sequence to your project.
You will configure the simulation application to be accessed on the platform.
You will configure which simulator variables are accessed during the test.
You will configure the signals to stimulate simulator variables.
You will configure the reference signals and methods to compare them to captured signals.
You will monitor test execution and inspect the test result.
Working through this lesson will take you about 60 minutes.
To check the results, refer to Results of Lesson 8.
This lesson starts with a new folder in your AutomationDesk project.
If you have not created your own AutomationDesk project as shown in the previous lesson, you can use the prepared demo project Tutorialdemo07.adpx in <DocumentsFolder>\Tutorial Demos.
Now you can start with the first step, refer to Step 1: How to Configure Variable Access.