STRIDE 4.3.01x

This page documents the changes in STRIDE version 4.3.01x (code name Power Plant), released on Jun 9, 2011.

Please review this information before upgrading from an earlier version.

Note that if you are upgrading from a previous installation you must uninstall your existing STRIDE before installing version 4.3.01x.

What's New

Based on customer feedback this release includes many key usability improvements and bug fixes.

Script Remoting

A full featured Perl Remoting API has been developed. Now you both "call" and "double" a function that exists on the target in a perl test module.

Tracing

The Tracing subsystem has been reimplemented. Now it allows tracing on any remote activity - test point/log, functions, messages, etc.

Posix SDK

A new Posix SDK (a generalization of previously existing Linux SDK) has been developed.

Change Details

Fixes

This section describes defects which have been corrected in STRIDE and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets [].

• Failure of an assertion test macro may result in incorrect code execution.
• Incorrect processing of a some complex expectation scenarios.
• STRIDE Build Tools error out on Linux with read-only access to $HOME.
• STRIDE Compiler may incorrectly handle bit fields in non-Microsoft mode.
• STRIDE Runner may incorrect traverse hidden folders.
• Unable to add more then one dynamic test case.

Tests in Scripts

• Improved test reporting support.
• There is no implicit trace content annotation per test module anymore.
• Error handling has been improved.

Tests in C/C++

• Simplified handling of dynamic test case status - added new srTEST_DONE status.
• Simplified handling of test doubles - added new srDOUBLE_RESET macro.
• Error handling has been improved.

Samples

• All samples have been updated.

Runtime

• STRIDE Host Release 4.3.01x is compatible with the Runtime Version 4.3.01
• All of the Runtime files have been modified. It is recommended that you update them all.
• The content of the Linux SDK has become part of the new Posix SDK.
• All Windows SDK files have been modified.

Minor and Patch releases

4.3.01a

New features and improvements:

• Windows SDK has been updated to support kernel mode testing.
• Added support for Perl version 5.14.

Defects corrected and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets []:

• STRIDE Compiler fails to compile valid C++0x syntax.
• Posix SDK source is not ANSI C complient and fails to compile in that mode.
• Posix SDK may fail to link in a minimalistic environment.
• The Linux version of the STRIDE Runner may fail to execute in some environments due to dependency on libmagic.
• STRIDE Extensions for Visual Studio may output incorrect build log file hyperlink.
• Test Unit Packaging Samples reference an undocumented macro.

The following Posix SDK files have been modified:

Makefile
palIO.c
palOS.c
stride.h
stride.c
strideDaemon.c
TestApp.c

The following Windows SDK files have been modified:

Makefile
palIO.c
stride.c
stride.targets

4.3.01b

Defects corrected and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets []:

• STRIDE Compiler may fail in C++ "microsoft" mode under Microsoft WDK 8.0 environment.
• STRIDE Compiler in "gnu" mode incorrectly adds "/usr/include" to its include search directories.
• The Linux version of the STRIDE Runner may not properly specify file annotation's mime type.

4.3.01c

New features and improvements:

• Added support for x64 target.
• Changed STRIDE Runner trace option to use "yml" (instead of "yaml") as output type.

Defects corrected and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets []:

• Posix SDK fails to compile with custom transport enabled.
• Posix SDK generates marshaling errors for single-process complex target.
• The Linux version of the STRIDE Runner executes times slower compared to Windows.
• Windows SDK kernel mode support is incomplete.
• Posix SDK may deadlock when built with -DPAL_USE_PTIMER_SIGEV_THREAD=0 (default).

The following Runtime files have been modified:

srdiag.h
srdiag.c

The following Posix SDK files have been modified:

Makefile
palIO.c
palOS.c
stride.c
stride.x64.settings

The following Windows SDK files have been modified:

Makefile
palOS.c
stride.c
stride.x64.settings

4.3.01d

New features and improvements:

• Improved error messages on STRIDE Runner upload failure.
• In STRIDE Studio, added property to determine script context.

Defects corrected and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets []:

• Klockwork warnings in Posix SDK.
• STRIDE Compiler may fail to compile system Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ATL headers in C++ "microsoft" mode.
• Off-target build of the Windows SDK may fail due to existance of Unix shell (i.e. sh.exe) in the system path.
• Unable to terminate STRIDE Runner when launched with wrong device IP address.
• Unable to apply scl_conform or scl_struct_sized pragma to a struct that is a last member of another struct.
• STRIDE Studio pops-up dialog blocking automation when a referenced file does not exist.
• VSBuild.pm, provided with STRIDE Studio, does not catch fatal link errors.

The following Posix SDK files have been modified:

Makefile
palIO.c
stride.c

The following Windows SDK files have been modified:

Makefile