Wind River announces Workbench 2.4

BANGALORE: Wind River Systems today announced Wind River Workbench 2.4, which features new product additions and upgrades to its commercial grade device software development suite.

The company said in a statement that the Wind River Workbench is the industry's first Eclipse-based, open-source device software development suite that offers deep capabilities for developers across the entire development process in a single integrated suite.

Workbench 2.4 development suite enables developers to elevate their focus to the higher-value features essential for competitive differentiation in today's rapidly growing device market, the firm said.

Venkatesh Kumaran, country manager — India, Wind River said, "With Wind River Workbench 2.4, we've maintained ease of development via one single integrated suite, while providing access to the latest Eclipse 3.1 technology and reducing time spent on manual processes. Wind River's development suite continues to be the only way for device developers to cut inefficiencies effectively throughout the development lifecycle."

With the release of Wind River Workbench 2.4, the suite introduces two new products, viz., Workbench Unit Tester and Workbench Diagnostics.

Workbench Unit Tester allows developers to create and perform unit testing, code integration testing and test coverage analysis in an easy and standardized way. Wind River Workbench Unit Tester tools increases product quality, decreases time- to-market and reduces support costs through better, faster and increasingly automated testing during the development lifecycle.

Workbench Diagnostics incorporates both nonstop dynamic debugging and forensic-style device level inspection capabilities. Wind River Workbench Diagnostics tools allow developers to safely and securely apply diagnostics to a live system, which is then enabled to provide a system status report.