International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication ISSN: 2321-8169

Volume: 5 Issue: 5 796 798

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Automated Testing of Infotainment System

Akshay Pola B A Sujatha Kumari

Master of Technology in Industrial Electronics, Associate Professor, Department of E&CE
Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Mysuru, India Mysuru, India

Abstract Infotainment system is one of the most complex Electronic Control Unit (ECU) which is integrated with number of ECUs in the
car. Infotainment system is getting more features in recent years because of which the testing of these systems has become very complex.
Testing of these systems with very high accuracy is a difficult task. This paper presents a method of testing the various features of Infotainment
System with very high Accuracy and less Human Effort.

Keywords- ECU, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ADB, HMI

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include, the test engineer of the ECU should be familiar with
I. INTRODUCTION
the language used in the infotainment system. For the systems
The suppliers of Infotainment systems are facing a that are in different foreign languages it becomes very difficult
challenge to develop an Infotainment system that satisfies their task for the test engineer to test the ECU.
customer requirements. This is mainly because of integration of One of the other methods is to integrate the camera with the
different technologies in the same ECU (Electronic Control robotic arm. The problem with this method is it is very
Unit). As the result of this complex system the testing of expensive and difficult to generalize.
various requirements becomes a very difficult task. Software method of automating the testing process is
Infotainment system is built on an Operating System which mostly economical and efficient method of testing the
supports number of technology such as Bluetooth, FM, AM, Infotainment System. This method of automating the test
Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), CarPlay, CarLife, MirrorLink. actions also helps in automating the actions that are carried out
Because of these different technologies integrated into the in Android phones. Majority of the test cases involve
single ECU the task of testing the system with very high connecting the Mobile Phones to the Infotainment system,
accuracy becomes very essential. hence choosing software method of automating the test actions
is preferred. As it becomes very easy to integrate the automated
test actions which are done for android mobile phones and
infotainment system. Automating the test actions in Android
mobile phone side requires ADB (Android Debug Bridge)
which is used to communicate with the computer system.
The majority of the requirements given by the customer
will be related to Bluetooth technology. The requirements
provided by customer also cover different technologies such as
MirrorLink, CarPlay and CarLife. This paper concentrates on
automation of Bluetooth and connectivity test actions.

II. BLUETOOTH IN INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM

Bluetooth technology helps the customer to make a Hands-
Free call while driving, play the audio files present in the
mobile phone, which is connected to the infotainment system
Figure 1: Infotainment system with CarPlay using Bluetooth. Download phone book from the mobile to the
infotainment system and many more. All these features of the
The functional features of this ECU is usually tested Bluetooth are realized using profiles such as HFP (Hands Free
manually, this process involves creation of test cases which Profile), A2DP (Advanced Audio distribution Profile), AVRCP
describe the steps to test the various requirements of the ECU. (Audio Video Remote Control Profile), PBAP (Phone Book
The problem with this method is huge amount of time is Access Profile).
required to test the features and the accuracy needed is not
fulfilled to the specified requirement. Some other problems
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The services provided by Hands Free Profile are, this without communicating with the Android device is referred to
profile enables mobile phone to send voice data to the as host service and the commands that are serviced after
infotainment system connected in the vehicle, thus providing a fetching information from the device through the daemon are
Hands-Free call feature, responsible for answering or rejecting termed as local services.
the phone calls, indicates voice call connection and Some of the ADB commands that are used in Automating
disconnection, gives a notification of call waiting, responsible test actions on the phone side are adb devices, adb shell
for switching between active calls and calls on hold, retrieves input keyevent.
phone book records that was downloaded with the help of The adb devices command is used to list out the number
Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP), retrieves the paired phone of devices attached to the computer system. This command also
call list, notifies an application during incoming call. prints the device identification number of the connected
Audio Video Remote Control Profile realizes the options Android mobile phone. Some ADB commands requires
such as play, pause, fast forward and backward, next, previous. deviceidentification number of the Android phone attached to
These options are used while playing media files in the the system in order to carry out actions, in such cases this
infotainment system. command is used. This command is a good example of host
Phone Book Access Profile is used to download the phone service.
book or the contacts from the phone which is connected to the adb shell input keyevent is the command that is used to
infotainment system. This also involves downloading the send event code to the android phone. Event codes are just a
profile pictures of the contacts that are saved on the mobile number, for example 26 is event code to power up android
phone. devices, similarly there are various event codes that are can be
Automation of testing these profiles is possible using the used to carry out test action automation in android phones.
serial communication port of the infotainment system. The Thiscommand is a good example of local service as the
scripting language used to achieve the automation is TCL (Tool computer system communicates with the daemon in the android
Command Language), which is an open source scripting device.
language. Android phones can be connected to the computer either by
One of the stress case that can be automated is click on the a TCP port or by USB. USB (Universal Serial Bus) connection
Play/Pause button every 500ms , of the media that is been is preferred method to connect the android phones to the
played in the infotainment system using A2DP profile of the computer as shown in figure 3.
Bluetooth technology. This can be automated by periodically
sending the touch co-ordinates of Play/Pause to the
infotainment system.

III. ANDROID DEBUG BRIDGE

Android Debug Bridge (ADB) tool is used to realize
automatic execution of the test actions on the Android mobile
phone, thus realizing the automation on the Android Phones.
ADB works in simple client/server architecture, and is made Figure 3: Android phone connected to the computer.
up of three key components, namely: Client, Server and
Daemon as shown in Figure 2
IV. CONCLUSION
Many of the stress and performance based test cases
can be automated using this method. However Automating
some of the requirements cannot be covered by using this
method of automation. For example, some of the requirements
include testing the contents that is being displayed on the
infotainment screen. Such as, testing and verification of the
Figure 2: Client Server Architecture of ADB signal strength, battery status, of the connected Android
mobile phone on the display of the infotainment system,
A server runs in the background of the host system and Verification of the contact names that is being displayed on
communicates between the client and the ADB daemon the HMI during outgoing or incoming voice call.
running on an Android device. The server also maintains
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