摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance efficiency of a test in development or product assurance, trouble analysis in an evaluation environment or market and a test in debugging or fault occurrence. <P>SOLUTION: Various kinds of states of one's own device are perceived as status information pieces from a sensor, a monitor or the like belonging to the device; the status information pieces are handled, by respective software modules corresponding to them, whereby information pieces 41-46 related to hardware are handled similarly to communication among modules 53-58 in software; history of operation carried out via an operation means and hardware information pieces 21-23 and 30 of various functional parts in the device are perceived as control information of communication messages or the like, among modules in control software for annunciating an operation state or state change in the control software (51); and the information related to the hardware and the control information are managed collectively. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |