Development of Test Automation Scripts for Panel Logic module using Vector CANoe

The automotive industry is rapidly growing every year, and we can see the automotive industry leaves more room for development and innovation. Nowadays, automation is needed to reduce human work. The in-car climate directly affects the driver, fatigue-free driving, and driving safety. To maintain the ambient temperature for the driver in the car, cars are fitted with an HVAC system controlled by the climate control unit (CCU). This paper will see test automation for CCU Panel using CAPL (Communication Access Programming Language). This paper gives knowledge about CAN protocol, HVAC (Heat Ventilation and Air Conditioning), CAPL scripting for panel logic module, and testing methods. The understanding of the system and its requirement for the development of CAPL test script for the automation in testing. For proceeding next, the CANoe setup for testing of CCU panel was designed. Previously manual testing is performed to test the ECU with the help of test cases, but it consumes lots of time. So here, we introduced a test automation script for our module. Using CAPL scripting, we automated the test cases, debugged them, and got the test report of pass and fail test cases. Here we can observe that manual testing takes almost 10 to 12 hr. to perform all test cases, but because of automation, it is done within 6.16 minutes