Event Agenda

About Vector

Complimentary

Safety Critical Embedded Software Testing Symposium

Vector Software, Inc. invites you to a complimentary Safety Critical Embedded Software Testing Symposium, which focuses on best practices to reduce time, effort and cost in validating your embedded software.

• Best practices to meet FAA, FDA and other regulatory agency requirements
• How to optimize your code to ensure testing success
• How some of our customers accomplish their testing objectives
• Via a comprehensive live demonstration on an embedded target, how VectorCAST, the industry-leading embedded software testing tool, addresses unit testing, integration testing, code coverage analysis, system testing, and regression testing

What you'll get out of the Safety Critical Embedded Software Testing Symposium
Education	Networking
Our symposium sessions will give you the latest information regarding the "next generation" of intelligent test tools.	Take this unique opportunity to talk face-to-face with experts in the testing field and other attendees.

Eucalyptus Point Conference Center at UC San Diego

La Jolla, CA

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

8:30 am - 12:00 pm

Lunch provided immediately following

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 Who Should Attend?

• Engineering Managers
• Software Developers
• Software Quality Engineers
• Test Engineers

Event Agenda

Time	Item
8:30 a.m.	Registration
9:00 a.m.	Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m.	Safety Critical Software Testing Best Practices
	This part of the presentation will discuss the software testing challenges faced by companies doing safety critical, embedded software applications, including: testing mandates from the FAA, FDA and other regulatory agencies; various approaches to achieving 100% structural coverage; and the importance of regression testing.
9:25 a.m.	Writing Optimized Code to Ensure Testing Success
	The ease by which software applications are tested is directly related to how the code is written. This section of the presentation will touch on the key best practices used during code development that make testing easier and quicker.
9:45 a.m.	How VectorCAST Supports Effective Embedded Software Testing
	VectorCAST is the industry-leading embedded software testing tool on the market. Learn about the various modules the make up the VectorCAST suite and how they address the various software testing challenges being discussed.
10:05 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	VectorCAST in Action
	Want to see VectorCAST tests running on a live board? Interested in the reality of how easy it is to perform unit and integration-level regression testing? The VectorCAST in Action section of the presentation will do just that - showcase how our customers are using VectorCAST to quickly and easily test their software applications, on target.
11:15 a.m.	Break
11:25 a.m.	Customer Success Stories
	Hear details on how some of our customers are using various VectorCAST modules to accomplish their testing objectives.
11:55 a.m.	Closing Remarks
Noon	Lunch

Vector Software, Inc. is a leading independent provider of automated test tools for software developers. Vector's "VectorCAST" line of products reduces the burden placed on individual developers by automating and standardizing application component level testing. The tools support C/C++, Embedded C++ (EC++), and Ada83/95. Vector's market focus is on companies performing embedded systems development for aerospace, military, medical, railway, and industrial control related projects.