Reactis for C V2016 Released

Reactis® for C V2016 was released today, adding a number of new features to support automated back-to-back testing of Simulink® models and C Code.

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New API features

The Reactis for C API has been greatly expanded and improved to support fully automated back-to-back testing of Simulink models and C code.

• Reactis build files can be created, modified, and accessed. Previously, these files could only be manipulated manually via the GUI.
• Reactis harness libraries can be created, modified, and accessed. Previously, these files could only be manipulated manually via the GUI.
• A MATLAB® interface to the API is now available which can be used in combination with the Reactis for Simulink API to perform automated back-to-back testing from within MATLAB scripts.

Test Harness Improvements

A number of improvements have been made to test harnesses. The goals of these improvements are twofold: (1) reduce the need to use wrapper functions, and (2) support cases where the data types used by a model do not precisely match the data types used in the corresponding C code.

• Test harnesses now include an initialization function, which eliminates the need for wrapper code in many cases. In particular, C code generated by Embedded Coder® can now be tested without any wrapper code in most cases.
• Support for C code which performs fixed point calculations has been added. Test harnesses can be configured to convert between real-world values (stored as floating point values) and the fixed point representation used in the C code.
• Settings have been added to control the rounding mode and overflow behavior when a test value is converted to/from a C code value. These settings are adjustable for each input, output, or configuration variable.

Stub File Improvements

If a program under test includes missing variables or functions (the variable or function is declared in a header file but never given an implementation in any C file), then Reactis for C can be directed to identify and generate stub implementations for the missing items. The following improvements have been made to generated stub files:

• Stub files now include all the type declarations required to compile, eliminating the need to manually add type declarations to a stub file after it is generated.
• In order to reduce the size of stub files, stub implementations are not generated for unneeded functions and variables. Static analysis is performed to determine if a variable is never referenced or a function is never called.

C Compiler Improvements

• GNU statement expressions are supported.
• Errors involving variables and code which are not used by the current test harness are ignored.
• Macros can be used as arguments to include directives.
• The formatting of the value shown when hovering on a scalar character value or arrays of characters is improved.
• Warnings are produced instead of syntax errors for GCC-style extended "asm" statements (the assembly code is ignored).

Other Enhancements

• Support for Windows 10.
• Launch a quick HTML coverage report from the top-level Coverage menu.
• Option to export Booleans as integers in CSV file.
• Checkbox in Tester launch dialog to enable/disable pruning of tests after the random phase.
• The build file editor has been streamlined to make the use of libraries easier.
• The number of output differences for which details are printed in a test execution report can now be capped.

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Best Regards,
The Reactis Team