Laptops quietly monitor their own health, but most people never tap into the tools that can warn of trouble long before a crash or data loss. Built-in hardware diagnostics sit below the operating ...

How can you tell if your software is doing what it’s supposed to? Write some tests and run them every time you change anything. But what if you’re making hardware? [deqing] has your back with the ...

The concept of Continuous Integration (CI) is a powerful tool in software development, and it’s not every day we get a look at how someone integrated automated hardware testing into their system.

Apple includes a hardware testing suite with all of its computers. Here is how to run it and interpret some of the error codes it may generate. Regardless of the ...

Hardware data platform Sift has introduced Sift Edge, a new software platform designed to record engineering test data directly at the test site, allowing aerospace and defense teams to continue ...

Electronic control units (ECUs) are vital embedded systems in vehicles; as such they impact numerous functions in a car and therefore must undergo rigorous testing. In any test workflow, ...

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing is a technique used to develop and test complex real-time embedded systems. HIL simulation provides an effective testing platform by adding the complexity of the ...

On numerous occasions we’ve extolled the virtues of Apple’s Hardware Test disc as a first step in investigating potential hardware issues that result in problems with startup, repeated kernel panics, ...