Abstract
RESEARCH OVERVIEW:
- Pages: 115
- Exhibits: 70
- Profiled Companies: 12
- Primary Sources/Telephone Sample Size: 15+
- Primary Sources/Web Survey Sample Size: 794
- Market Forecast Coverage: Through 2009
- Regional Market Coverage: Global
DETAILED OVERVIEW:
As part of its 2007 Embedded Software Market Intelligence Program, Venture Development Corporation (VDC) has released a volume covering the worldwide market for embedded test automation tools. Specifically, research efforts focused on the sales of static and dynamic analysis tools and related services including: memory/performance analysis, code coverage, coding rules, unit testing, integration/system testing, security/vulnerability analysis and related services.
Table of Contents
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- ON THE WORLD MARKET FOR EMBEDDED TEST AUTOMATION TOOLS
- Market Developments and Segmentations
- Competitive Landscape
- Key Success Requirements
II. SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
- SCOPE
- Application Segments
- METHODOLOGY
III. MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND SEGMENTATIONS
- MARKET OVERVIEW
- DEVELOPMENTS, TRENDS AND STRATEGIC ISSUES
- Market for Static Analysis Tools to Maintain High Rate of Revenue Growth
- Increasing Adoption of Testing Tools for Non-Safety-Critical Application
- Development
- Use of Multi-core Processors Will Drive Test Automation Tool Investment
- Growing Project Complexity to Increase Revenue Growth
- MARKET ESTIMATES, FORECASTS, AND DRIVERS
- Current and Forecast
- Three-Year Global Forecast Segmented by Product and Service Category
- Three-Year Global Forecast Segmented by Geographic Region
- Three-Year Global Forecast Segmented by Vertical Market
IV. AGGREGATE STATISTICS ON EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS'
- REQUIREMENTS
- ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE
- AND PREFERENCES
V. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
- Market Share Leaders and Positioning
- Other Competitive Markets
VI. VENDOR PROFILES
- COVERITY, INC.
- THE FANFARE GROUP, INC.
- GRAMMATECH, INC.
- IBM CORPORATION
- INFORMATION PROCESSING LTD.
- KLOCWORK INC.
- LDRA SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY
- PARASOFT CORPORATION
- POLYSPACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- THE PROGRAMMING RESEARCH GROUP
- TELELOGIC AB
- TESTQUEST, INC.
VII. KEY SUCCESS REQUIREMENTS
- SUMMARIES AND OBSERVATIONS
APPENDIX A: VENDOR LIST
APPENDIX B: STATISTICS ON EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS USING TEST AUTOMATION TOOLS
LIST OF EXHIBITS
III. MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND SEGMENTATIONS
- III-1 Current Development Project Use of Test Automation Tools (Percent of Respondents, N = 538 )
- III-2 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services, Segmented by Product Type (Percent of Dollars)
- III-3 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services, Segmented by Product Type; 2006-2009 (Millions of Dollars)
- III-4 Total Lines of Application Code (Percent of Respondents)
- III-5 Typical Development Project Geographic Team Distribution (Percent of Respondents)
- III-6 Number of Project Starts within company Per Year by Surveyed Developers, Segmented by Test Automation Tool Use
- III-7 Number of Project Starts within company Per Year by Surveyed Developers, Segmented by Test Automation Tool Use (Percent of Respondents)
- III-8 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services Through 2009 (Millions of Dollars).
- III-9 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services Segmented by Product/Service (Percent of Dollars)
- III-10 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services, Segmented by Product/Service; 2006-2009 (Millions of Dollars)
- III-11 Importance of Factors in Purchasing Decision for Development Tools by Developers also Using a Test Automation Tool (Average of Respondents; 1 = Not at all important, 5 = Very important)
- III-12 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services Segmented by Geographic Region (Percent of Dollars)
- III-13 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region; 2006-2009 (Millions of Dollars)
- III-14 Use of Test Automation Tools, Segmented by Geographic Region (Percent of Respondents, N = 117)
- III-15 Current Development Project Use of Test Automation Tools, Segmented by Region
- III-16 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services Segmented by Vertical Market (Percent of Dollars)
- III-17 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market; 2006-2009 (Millions of Dollars)
IV. AGGREGATE STATISTICS ON EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS' REQUIREMENTS
- IV-1 Survey Respondents Segmented by Geographic Region (Percent of Respondents, N = 794)
- IV-2 Survey Respondents Segmented by Vertical Market (Percent of Respondents, N = 794)
- IV-3 Current Embedded System being Developed a New Design or Enhancement to Previous Design (Percent of Respondents, N = 770)
- IV-4 Estimate of Elapsed Time between Design/Specification Stage to Shipping Date (Percent of Respondents, N = 781)
- IV-5 Number of Engineers Working on Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 767)
- IV-6 Number of Engineers working on Current Project by Type (Average of Respondents, N = 767)
- IV-7 Number of Engineers Working at Company (Percent of Respondents, N = 603)
- IV-8 Number of Engineers working at Company by Type (Average of Respondents, N = 603)
- IV-9 Percentage of Project Development Time By Stages (Average of Respondents, N = 645)
- IV-10 Description of Processor Architecture Used in Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 778)
- IV-11 Primary MPU/MCU Architecture Used in Current Project and Expected to be Used in Two Years (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-12 Technologies/Components/Protocols Currently Used and Expected to be Used in Two Years (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-13 Real Time Requirements On Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 737)
- IV-14 Interrupt Response Requirements (Percent of Respondents, N = 574)
- IV-15 Context Switch Response Requirements (Percent of Respondents, N = 341)
- IV-16 ROM Requirements for Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 707)
- IV-17 RAM Requirements for Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 707)
- IV-18 Flash Memory Requirements for Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 699)
- IV-19 Total Lines of Application Code Once the Project is Complete (Percent of Respondents, N = 692)
- IV-20 Percent of Application Code Leveraged From Previous Designs (Percent of Respondents, N = 677)
- IV-21 Debugged Lines of Code Written Per Software Developer Per Month (Percent of Respondents, N = 675)
- IV-22 Number of Operating Systems on the Current Project (Percent of Respondents, N = 649)
- IV-23 Primary Operating System Used for the Previous Project, Current Project, and Planned for Next Project (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-24 Satisfaction with Current OS/RTOS (Average of Respondents, 1 = Very Dissatisfied, 5 = Very Satisfied)
- IV-25 Channel That Current OS/RTOS Was Obtained/Purchased Through (Percent of Respondents, N = 459)
- IV-26 Importance of Selection Criteria in Selection of Embedded OS (Average of Respondents, 1 = Not at all important, 5 = Very important)
- IV-27 Total Costs of Development ($US) (Percent of Respondents, N = 447)
- IV-28 Percent of Total Cost of Projects Accounted for by Software Development (Software Development costs include labor, Software licensing fees, and infrastructure to support development and deployment. ) (Percent of Respondents, N = 553)
- IV-29 Percent of Software Development Costs Accounted for by Commercial OS and Tools Licensing (Percent of Respondents, N = 544)
- IV-30 Prefer to get Commercial Solutions (RTOS, tools, etc) from a Single Vendor or Multiple Vendors (Percent of Respondents, N = 591)
- IV-31 Who Most Influences the Decision to Purchase Software for Your Embedded Projects (Percent of Respondents, N = 600)
- IV-32 Primary Software Development Tools Channel (Percent of Respondents, N = 589)
- IV-33 Importance of Factors in Purchasing Decision for Development Tools (Average of Respondents; 1 = Not at all important, 5 = Very important)
- IV-34 Approximate Software Development Tools Budget per Developer per Year (Percent of Responses, N = 478)
- IV-35 Programming Languages Currently Used and Expected to Be Used in Two Years (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-36 Primary Host Development Platform Currently Used and Expected to Be Used in Two Years (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-37 Software Design Methodologies Currently Used and Expected to Be Used in Two Years (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-38 Use of Development Tools on Current Project (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-39 Estimate the total Number of units shipped (include all products) by your company (Percent of Respondents, N = 446)
- IV-40 Total Units shipped by type of OS (Average Percent of Units Shipped)
- IV-41 Number of Project Starts within company Per Year (Percent of Respondents, N = 490)
- IV-42 Percentage of Project Starts Completed Ahead, Behind, On Schedule, and Canceled Annually Per Company (Average Percent of Project Starts)
- IV-43 Average Amount of Time Project Ran Before Cancellation (Percent of Responses, N = 407)
- IV-44 Predominant Factors Causing Projects to Be Canceled (Percent of Responses, N = 407)
- IV-45 Average Number of Months Projects Run Late (Percent of Responses, N = 459)
- IV-46 Predominant Factors Causing Projects to Be Late (Percent of Responses, N = 511)
- IV-47 Survey Respondents' Primary Job Function (Percent of Responses, N = 555)
- IV-48 Survey Respondents' Age (Percent of Responses, N = 539)
- IV-49 Survey Respondents' Highest Level of Education (Percent of Responses, N = 553)
- IV-50 Survey Respondents' Total Years Developing Embedded Systems (Percent of Respondents, N = 552)
- IV-51 Survey Respondents' Total Number of Embedded Projects Worked On (Percent of Respondents, N = 529)
V. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
- V-1 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded Software Test Automation Tools and Related Services, Segmented by Vendor Share (Millions of Dollars)
- V-2 Primary Test Automation Tool Used in Current Project; N = 117 (Percent of Respondents)
