TRACE-CHECK 2023.3

Since TRACE-CHECK 2023.2 project and package reports can be displayed in the locally installed TRF viewer with a simple click from TEST-GUIDE. The TRF Viewer automatically downloads hosted artifacts as soon as they are needed.

With TRACE-CHECK 2023.3 this function has been improved even further. Artifacts referenced by project reports are now reliably identified and loaded by TEST-GUIDE.

Downloaded reports and artifacts are stored in a subfolder of the temp directory. This cache directory is now automatically cleaned so that only recently used reports are kept. The corresponding algorithm is configured in the program settings.

The package variables of type Enum have been revised. In the test case and in the trace analysis, an Enum value is now used instead of the Int value. This supports the flexible comparison with number and text.
The representations are accessible via myVar.int and myVar.str.

Using myVar.enum– supported by auto-completion – you can access specific values of the defined enumeration, so that sustainable comparisons can be realized.

Analysis packages from library workspaces are now displayed in the Workspace tab and can be used in the project.

Note: In the next release, the use in trace analyses will also be supported.

Individually calculated signals can be defined for a plot. This makes it now much easier to plot specific elements of an array or attributes of an object-valued signal, such as SOME/IP messages.

It is also possible to calculate with one or more signals or to specify a constant value. The identifier for the legend can be assigned independently of the formula.

An If-Then-Else block has been added in TRACE-CHECK 2023.2 to the trace analysis.
This supports more flexible variant handling and a more dynamic analysis process by executing trace steps or entire episodes depending on package variables.

With TRACE-CHECK 2023.3 two new functions are available in the If condition:

• SampleCount(signal)
• IsFound(signal)

These are most useful when checking for the presence of optional trace analysis signals.

If additional signal data is required for understanding or evaluating a trace analysis, it can be subsequently imported into an existing AutoSPY document. While AutoSPY Analyzer only supported MDF4 and CSV files so far, it now also allows the import of additional signals from bus logging files of type ASC, BLF and TTL.

If you have too much signal data in an AutoSPY document to view it manually only, the search function in AutoSPY Analyzer helps you to find specific events in the trace quickly and easily.

In addition to numeric and Boolean signals, the search function now also supports text-valued signals whose samples are single characters or strings.

These and many other questions were asked by users again and again.
The answer: Calling a package in TRACE-CHECK is simply "different" from running a diagnostic job or reading a model variable.

However, this is not the way it has to be.

From TRACE-CHECK 2023.4 on, package calls are realized via our mapping concept. All basic workflows remain the same.

Drag 'n Drop from the Workspace Explorer inserts the familiar test step. But this one no longer has an address line, but a mapping reference.

The file path of the package is now part of the (automatically created) mapping. This also works for library packages.

Changing the target is done as usual from other quantities by overmapping the entry with another package.

If all package usages should be customized, this can easily be done via a global mapping. The method is the same as for other test quantities

When opening existing packages, all existing references are updated and suitable local mappings are created.

This new concept will be rolled out with TRACE-CHECK 2023.4.

Attention: The support of global constants in package references is discontinued with this migration. Package references with reference to global constants are migrated. But all test cases are still executable..