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    By Vincent Encontre. All Rights Reserved.&#xD;
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&lt;p>&#xD;
    Vincent Encontre is the Director for Embedded and RealTime, Automated Testing Business Unit, based in IBM's new&#xD;
    engineering center in Toulouse, France. When he's not traveling, attending meetings, or answering zillions of emails,&#xD;
    Vincent looks at the destiny of Rational Test RealTime as a Rational product and as reusable technologies for next&#xD;
    generations of Rational products. Vincent has extensive experience in embedded modeling and testing technologies and&#xD;
    practices. Prior to Rational and ATTOL, Vincent spent 13 years at Philips, then at Verilog, designing, marketing, and&#xD;
    supporting software engineering tools, believing these tools could help build better software faster.&lt;br />&#xD;
    In his spare time, Vincent plays soccer with his three boys and a few others, and just enjoys the wonderful art de&#xD;
    vivre from the south of France (before it's too late...).&#xD;
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    A &lt;a href=&quot;./resources/rt_test.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>PDF version&lt;/a> of this article is available, however, you must&#xD;
    have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Adobe Acrobat&lt;/a> installed to view&#xD;
    it. You can download other RUP white papers from the &lt;a&#xD;
    href=&quot;http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/info/literature/whitepapers.jsp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>IBM Web site.&lt;/a>&#xD;
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&lt;h3>&#xD;
    Abstract&#xD;
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&lt;p>&#xD;
    This paper gives a general introduction to testing embedded systems followed by a discussion of how embedded systems'&#xD;
    issues affect testing processes and technologies, and how Rational Test RealTime provides solutions to these issues.&#xD;
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&lt;p>&#xD;
    It presents an overview of the process of six incremental steps used to test embedded systems. Considering this process&#xD;
    (taking into account the full spectrum from very small to very large systems), and the specific characteristics and&#xD;
    constraints of embedded systems, we have deduced a set of requirements that an ideal technology must possess to address&#xD;
    the testing of embedded systems. Rational Test RealTime, the new Rational offering to the embedded systems domain,&#xD;
    exemplifies large portions of this ideal technology. &amp;nbsp;&#xD;
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