Modern vehicles already contain around 100 million lines of code, according to McKinsey, with that figure projected to reach 300 million by 2030. As AI accelerates software development, validation faces a growing workload, making effective test creation and maintenance increasingly important to vehicle safety and reliability.
Hyperpilot has announced a new integration that allows engineering teams to generate tests directly from requirements and run them across the entire development lifecycle, using the dSPACE Test Automation SDK.
A modern car contains up to 150 electronic control units running, and between them are thousands of individual software units, each needing its own tests. For a single control unit, the test suite alone can run to tens of thousands of cases, and across the industry, verification and validation consume between 30% and 50% of all software development effort. Written manually, test suites move at the pace of engineering teams: authored line by line, updated in batches weeks apart and reworked every time a requirement changes.
Hyperpilot Studio can generate tests directly from requirements, with the resulting test suites exported as native dSPACE Test Automation SDK executables. The tests can run across software-, hardware- and vehicle-in-the-loop (SIL/HIL/VIL) setups without modification, providing a common workflow that keeps requirements, software and test cases aligned throughout development.
“In safety-critical systems, tests are the specification,” said Elie Talj, co-founder and CEO of Hyperpilot. “Software design can already scale, thanks to Hyperpilot’s Algorithm Discovery Engine. The next challenge is making sure validation scales with it. By combining Hyperpilot with dSPACE’s Test Automation SDK, teams can autogenerate thousands of high-quality tests in minutes, straight from requirements, and run them in any setup they choose.”
Hyperpilot Studio generates hundreds of tests per minute for individual software units, with parallel processing allowing the output to scale to thousands of tests per minute. The company says it can generate a complete, traceable test suite for a control unit within minutes, and for a full vehicle program within days. Tests can also be regenerated when requirements change, helping to keep validation aligned with software development.
Engineers can focus on reviewing test coverage, assessing edge cases and signing off results, while Hyperpilot Studio automates test generation. The approach could also allow teams that currently outsource test development to bring more of this work in-house. Hyperpilot removes a key barrier to test-driven development in embedded systems by automating test generation as requirements change.
dSPACE has expanded its portfolio with a test automation SDK designed to simplify automated test execution in Python across software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) environments. Development and validation teams can create and run test cases in Python across both setups, supporting automated end-to-end test workflows. Further development of the SDK will be open source, allowing users and partners to contribute to its development.
The solution uses code-based test automation, with tests written as Python scripts and reused across different test environments. An abstraction layer allows the same test logic to run on SIL platforms such as dSPACE Veos and HIL systems such as dSPACE Scalexio, with changes between environments handled through configuration rather than rewriting the tests.
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