Integration, Verification & Validation

Our Test Services deliver holistic problem solutions tailored to your specific requirements. Whether you need comprehensive coverage of all test activities or focused single test services, our interdisciplinary approach ensures optimal outcomes. Choose from real-world, simulated, and virtual tests to achieve precision and excellence in every project.

Our Value Proposition

  • Interdisciplinary Thinking within Vehicle Architecture
  • Combining the Real and Virtual Test World
  • Monitoring the Whole Development Cycle
  • Making Use of Our Specific Product Know-How
  • Providing Holistic Problem Solutions

Integration

Connecting complexity & simplifying solutions

System Integration
We provide vehicle integration services for individually defined E/E systems, utilizing a deep familiarity with various integration strategies. CES delivers turnkey solutions for integrating distributed systems with components from multiple manufacturers, ensuring compliance with automotive standards such as ISO 26262 and ASPICE. CES also supports a range of integration needs, from simple to complex solutions, leveraging knowledge of both traditional and new architectural designs. Not only do our project verification and validation processes consider cybersecurity and Functional Safety (FUSA), but additionally, we perform systematic testing from component to vehicle level.

Integration Test
CES conducts thorough integration testing to verify compliance with system architectural design. Our approach ensures the correct and consistent implementation of system interfaces, signal, and data flow, including the integration of real and virtual components. We inspect the dynamic behavior of systems, focusing on robustness and performance, to ensure reliable and efficient operation.

Verification

Proving Quality, Exceeding Standards

System Test Management
System Test Management is a key activity to secure a structured planning and execution of test activities. This includes creating detailed system test plans and generating test reports. Our approach involves tracking all development-related testing activities and applying a proven test management process.  To ensure efficient and effective Test Management, we establish coordination within the test team, we oversee test scope and strategy – Our System Test Manager serves as the primary interface to project managers and teams, leveraging extensive experience.

System Test
Our efficient verification processes are implemented to prove the fulfillment of specifications using the most suitable tool chain and automation rate. We ensure consistent traceability from requirements to test case coverage and overall reporting. CES accomplishes system tests by executing the defined test strategy, including aspects like regression and smoke test. Our team handles the adaptation, construction, and commissioning of the required test environments, testing functionalities from component to vehicle level. Each functionality is documented in an individual report for which release recommendations are provided. We are also familiar with the newest system approaches, such as Server-Zone Architecture, Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.

Validation

Your Assurance of Flawless Performance

Environmental Qualification
CES offers environmental qualification services designed to boost product robustness and reliability. With thorough expertise across several branches, we conduct life cycle and requirement analysis, create detailed test plans, and set up dedicated test systems. CES manages laboratory operations, implements qualification processes, and provides detailed reporting, guaranteeing thorough and reliable environmental testing.

Vehicle Testing
In vehicle testing, CES provides customized solutions for integrating and testing vehicles, ensuring functional and performance excellence. Our services include vehicle integration, functional and performance testing, as well as vehicle mileage accumulation. We conduct in-vehicle tests using labcars, mulecars, and prototypes, verifying and validating various development stages. Our team equips test vehicles with specialized measurement equipment to access and collect data from different levels of vehicle architecture. With elaborated problem resolution management and efficient execution, CES verifies and validates each development step.

Homologation
CES manages the entire homologation process, providing comprehensive support for certification at the vehicle, system, and component levels. From internal preparation tests to certification testing in accredited labs, CES streamlines the certification process, ensuring compliance with local standards and regulatory requirements, such as safety and environmental regulations. Our profound verification and tailored support help meet all necessary standards efficiently and effectively.

Test Environment

Transforming Testing Through Technology

Test Bench Concept & HIL Test Setup
CES is experienced in the definition, creation, and customizing of test benches designed to evaluate components and systems. By simulating various states or entire systems, CES ensures extensive functionality testing. Our expertise spans concept creation, component and assembling layout, finding the best suitable supplier, special component creation, as well as test bench commissioning and acceptance, and guaranteeing an efficient testing process.

Test Device Development
In the field of test device development, CES offers customized solutions of application-specific test equipment. We build and validate Lifetime Test (LTT) and Hardware in the Loop (HIL) systems and master complex sensor simulation. Additionally, CES provides support for all kind of test benches, encompassing various communication protocols, remote access, and test automation.

Test Automation
With over 15 years of experience, CES excels in creating and developing test scripts for automation and remote testing, covering single products to complete EE architectures. We utilize innovative automation strategies and continuous testing frameworks to solve current tasks and enable future projects. Our expertise includes partial automation using Vector Tools (CAPL, CASL, VT Studio), full automation with Python scripts in a Jenkins environment, and automated test stands based on DSpace, ensuring efficient test automation with effective variant handling.

Consulting

Customized Strategies for Effective Testing

Gain access to a profound expertise in Integration, Verification and Validation by consulting CES. Our know-how has grown from a wide range of projects while ISTQB CTFL certification ensures up-to-date and effective approaches. We specialize in guiding projects from firefighting scenarios to achieving ASPICE conformance. Operating independently and objectively, CES is offering you scalable solutions that adapt seamlessly to your evolving needs.

We are specialized in test management, including the development of consistent test strategies and coordination of interdisciplinary efforts to benefit from synergies. And we are proficient with test engineering, accurately reviewing requirements and test specifications to determine the most effective testing concepts, including automation strategies. Additionally, we optimize qualification flows and equipment to ensure efficient testing processes at every stage, tailored to your product’s requirements.

Our Fields of Experience

What services can we support you with?

Vehicle Level Verification

Driving Confidence – Thorough Verification for Your Vehicle

  • OEM-Level System Integration & Verification Test
  • Testing Driving Functions à Incl. Whole Chain of Effects
  • Guaranteed Compliance with Automotive Standards
  • Fleet Management for Test Vehicles
  • Provide Release Recommendations for Diverse Fleets (Including FuSa & SOTIF)
  • Testing Across Diverse Environments:
    • Prototype Vehicles on Proving Ground & Public Road
    • Labcar to Test Integrated Components

Component Level Verification

Ensuring Excellence at the Core

  • Component Integration & System Integration Testing
  • Consistent Traceability from Requirement to Overall Report
  • BlackBox Testing: Investigation of Functionalities, Without Looking into Internal Structures or Processes
  • Adaptation, Construction & Commissioning of the Required Test Environment
  • Experience in Server-Zone/ HPC Architecture Testing

Environmental Qualification & Reliability

Proven Performance in Any Condition

  • Agreement of Required Process Flow with the Customer
  • Definition & Setup of Proper Test Tools
  • Project-Specific Tailoring and Efficient Execution
  • Elaborated Problem Resolution Management
  • Boost of Product Robustness & Reliability
  • Thorough Expertise in Automotive & Beside

Testhouse

Discovering Defects before Your Customers Do!

  • Bridging Development to System Release
  • Precision in Test Case Alignment
  • Equipped for Thorough Testing
  • Evaluating Test Results to Draw the Right Conclusions
  • Streamlined Error Management
  • Develop & Provide Sophisticated Solutions
  • On-Site Service for Your Convenience

Test Equipment Development

Crafting Test Equipment for Tomorrow's Challenges

  • Finding the Perfect Fit for Your Requirements
    • Individualization of Existing Solutions
    • Development of Customized Test Equipment
  • Designing the Test Setup & the Related SW
  • Achieving the Optimal Degree of Test Automation
  • Different Kinds of Test Equipment: Test Benches, System Test HiLs, Lifetime Test Systems, Vehicle Testers, Smart Access

Image Testing

Beyond Sight: Testing of Visual Experiences

  • Over 10 Years of Experience in Testing HMI Systems
  • We Achieve Automation Rates Up to 100%
  • Automated Image Comparison
    • OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to Test Texts
    • GMT (Generic Modelling Tool) to Test on Pixel Level
  • Full Traceability from Requirement to Test Result
  • Streamlined Error Management and Resolution

Test Automation

Automate, Accelerate, Elevate – Testing Towards Success

  • More than 15 Years of Experience in Test Automation
  • From Single Products up to Complete EE Architectures
  • Know-How in Different Automation Platforms
  • Usage of Innovative Automation Strategies & Continuous Testing Frameworks
  • Solve Your Current Task & Enable Future Projects
  • Efficient Test Automation with Variant Handling

Diagnostics

Unlocking Insights Effortlessly – Simplifying Diagnostics for You

  • High Competence in Diagnostic, Communication & Cybersecurity Tests
  • Working with Traditional and Next Generation Architectures for Different Platforms
  • Expertise in Various OEM-Specific Diagnostic Tools
    • Profound Understanding of Service Routines
    • Guided Trouble Shooting
    • Testing Embedded Diagnostic Services

DIRECT CONTACT

Julien Fayard

Chief Engineer of Business Center Verification & Validation

Email: julien.fayard@conti-engineering.com