The process of innovating, designing, developing, testing and deploying a software product is product engineering. Product engineering initiates the product life cycle from the product innovation phase to the deployment, execution and user acceptance testing phase. It includes design, development, and transition to manufacturing of a product. The various phases of product engineering are:
- Product Ideation
- Product Architecture
- Product Design
- Product Testing
- Product Migration and Porting
- Technical Support
- Sustaining Engineering
- Professional Services
Product engineering is a holistic process which entails many activities such as issues of cost, quality, performance, reliability, serviceability, intended lifespan, user convenience and user features of the product being engineered.
Product engineering services provided by market leaders ensure latest technologies blended with enhanced designs, improved materials, superior quality and enriched user experience in products. Hence, the process of innovation, re-engineering, process optimization, localization, customization and cost rationalization prove to be the success factors differentiating big giants from emerging smaller product engineering companies.
Product engineering solutions or integrated product solutions help develop products that have a high level of intelligence are made to communicate with other devices and IT platforms. Also, intelligent connected infrastructure solutions bring together a seamless information and entertainment experience, which can be accessed by users anywhere, anytime and on any device. Thirdly, engineering and manufacturing process solutions amalgamate capabilities of engineering, automation and IT to enable integration of processes in the plant and field environment.
The last step in software solutions development is embedded application testing. Embedded testing is relevant and mandatory to various industries and especially essential for the software industry. The developed software has to verify the desired standards before being marketed. It has to maintain being bug-free while in use. Various standardization processes are employed to prove the efficiency and quality of the engineered software
When software is found to produce results which are below acceptable standards due to malicious kind of bugs present in the application process, it goes through the verification process. The verification process helps to identify the nature of the bug present in the application. Once again the experts take up the software and repair it to make it ready to pass the respective quality control test to match the standards laid for the developed software. There are various levels of standardization and products have to comply with such level of competence. Embedded testing requires highly skilled resources to accomplish this sophisticated task. Also, while doing this focus should remain on providing complete client satisfaction, by offering a host of services at affordable price. Embedded testing includes a series of services as a part of embedded system testing:
- Interface Testing
- Performance Testing
- Functionality Testing
- Usability Testing
- Security Testing
- Test Plan
Some traits of embedded software are such that they make the task of testing a hardship for testers or engineers. Some of these are real-time responses, deficiency in standardization and established interfaces etc. What is needed is to identify and isolate defects from software to avoid multiple reworks.
