Benefit from accelerated unit and integration testing
Benefit from accelerated unit and integration testing
When doing nothing becomes the most expensive choice
Industry leaders trust Cantata to produce high-quality, safety-standard compliant, and business-critical embedded software in the most cost-effective way. Trusted across industries such as automotive, medical devices, aerospace, and more, Cantata helps organizations meet stringent standards like ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 while delivering secure, reliable software that supports business growth.
If embedded software is a key differentiator in your products or essential to your business operations, ensuring software reliability through cost-effective testing is crucial. Continuing to rely on manual tests, in-house solutions, or outdated legacy tools can cost far more than investing in a modern, purpose-built tool that enhances testing efficiency and effectiveness.
Companies using Cantata every day gain a competitive edge with automated testing, saving time, reducing errors, and outperforming those relying on open-source tools or manual processes.
By choosing Cantata, organizations make unit and integration testing easier, while gaining key advantages:
- Reduce the cost of standards compliance
- Minimize the risk of software failure
- Lower overall testing expenses
- Accelerate time to market
Investing in Cantata isn’t just about saving costs—it’s about delivering reliable, high-quality software with confidence.
Unit Test with Cantata
Unit testing with Cantata focuses on testing the smallest testable parts of an application, enabling precise identification of failures that larger system tests might overlook in complex applications. This allows errors to be fixed faster and more cost-effectively. By ensuring that individual units function correctly, Cantata reduces the challenges and costs associated with integrating and system-testing complex applications. This approach not only lowers downstream expenses but also makes the development process more predictable and efficient.
Learn more about the advantages of unit testing in our comprehensive white paper. Why bother to unit test
Integration Test with Cantata
Cantata enables developers to test the interactions between units working together as a group. Integration testing with Cantata is flexible and scalable, whether performed in a software-in-the-loop (SiL), hardware-in-the-loop (HiL), or processor-in-the-loop (PiL) environment.
Cantata makes integration testing more efficient, effective, and adaptable to the needs of your complex software systems.
How Can Cantata Cut the Cost of Standards Compliance?
Cantata significantly reduces the cost of standards compliance by providing a comprehensive solution for dynamic unit and integration testing across both host and target platforms. By meeting all testing requirements of software safety standards, Cantata simplifies the compliance process with a single, efficient tool.
Certification of development tools often imposes a heavy cost burden. Cantata addresses this by offering independent certification through SGS-TÜV SAAR GmbH, along with a free tool certification kit that includes everything needed for compliance out-of-the-box.
Compliance with the dynamic testing requirements of software safety standards is often complex and time-consuming. Cantata streamlines this process by offering detailed guidance on leveraging its powerful features, helping organizations meet standard-specific test requirements faster and more efficiently.
How Does Cantata Reduce the Risk of Software Failure?
The cost of software failure, including product recalls and damage to brand or corporate reputation, can far exceed the cost of development. By enabling thorough unit testing, Cantata helps prevent bugs in application code before they reach shipping devices, ensuring greater reliability.
Cantata mitigates project over-runs by shifting verification earlier in the development lifecycle. Through unit testing, developers can verify components individually, reducing delays and risks during integration when components are already proven to work.
In an era where fitness-for-purpose litigation is on the rise, companies face increasing risks if they fail to follow accepted industry practices. Thorough unit testing with Cantata supports compliance with these practices and strengthens a company’s ability to use the “state of the art” legal defence, reducing potential liability.
How Will Cantata Lower My Testing Costs?
Testing earlier in the development cycle significantly reduces costs by minimizing rework and dependencies on the entire code stream. Cantata enables developers to identify defects immediately through unit and integration testing as soon as components are available, preventing costly delays and errors downstream.
The high costs of ensuring standard-compliant software can be dramatically reduced with Cantata automation. From framework setup to test case generation, execution on host or target platforms, diagnostics, and results production, Cantata automates every step, making testing more cost-effective.
Hidden costs can arise when integrating tools into a development toolchain. Cantata eliminates this challenge with seamless integration into cross-compilation environments and its intuitive C/C++ code tests in Eclipse GUI or code editors. This ease of integration ensures a fast learning curve for developers and smooth adoption into existing workflows, further reducing costs.
How Does Cantata Shorten My Time to Market?
Industry leaders understand the importance of delivering products faster without compromising on quality. Cantata provides two key time-saving advantages for Development Managers:
- Improved Team Collaboration and Efficiency: With structured, consistent tests and certification-ready reports, teams can work more efficiently and avoid duplication of effort.
- Faster and Predictable Integration: By ensuring individual software components are thoroughly tested before integration, Cantata reduces integration times and makes them more predictable.
These benefits enable organizations to accelerate their development cycles while maintaining high-quality standards.
Why Is Cantata Better Than Any ‘Free’ Open Source Tool?
Cantata is specifically designed to meet the technical needs of safety and business-critical applications, offering a level of quality and functionality unmatched by open source tools. Its user-friendly interface and powerful diagnostics make unit and integration testing more efficient, while also allowing for extensive customization to suit specific requirements. Unlike open source tools, Cantata provides professional technical support and comprehensive documentation, saving developers time and ensuring the tool performs as needed without additional effort.
Cantata is also pre-certified for many safety-related standards, eliminating the high costs associated with qualifying or certifying open source tools for safety-critical use. Certification of open source tools requires defining requirements, developing and running tests, and demonstrating correct operation—an effort that is often cost-prohibitive.
Additionally, Cantata allows organizations to leverage existing investment in legacy open source test scripts implemented in C/C++ (e.g., CppUnit or CxxTest). These scripts can be reused and embedded within Cantata tests, retaining all existing test cases while benefiting from Cantata’s advanced features.
More information on the benefits of Cantata compared to open source tools in our white paper: Why Pay for a Unit Test Tool
How Much Will It Cost to Invest in Cantata?
Cantata is competitively priced with flexible licensing models, allowing you to choose the option that best fits your business needs. Comprehensive user documentation, an intuitive Eclipse user interface, and C/C++ language support with tool integrations help to reduce the learning curve, ensuring a quick and efficient adoption process.
Most license packages include a one-year maintenance and support contract, providing free upgrades and access to dedicated assistance from our expert team. For organizations seeking a fast and smooth rollout, we also offer an optional 2-day on-site training course.
For more information on license and service pricing options, please contact us.
Special shared license bundle option
Cantata and QA-MISRA share the same Sentinel RMS user license technology. This allows customers to obtain a bundled solution for both tools to share the same concurrent user license pool, as well as the tools being integrated together in the Eclipse-based IDE.
When Cantata is purchased as a bundle with QA-MISRA or when an existing Cantata license is converted to a bundle, there are very attractive combined prices available. Please contact us for more information.
