Release Notes

Version 2025 (2024-November-29)

Module Type Description
General Feature In case a data acquisition is running, the main toolbar displays the according button with red background. This makes it easier to see that a data acquisition is running.
When selecting the menu item “New login” and not changing the model, it is not necessary anymore to select if you want to reload the model or not. The current model state stays untouched in that case. Thus, switching the user is faster.
The PROVEtech:TA Log file output adds a line with the new date when the current day changes.
The PROVEtech:TA Log module output settings now only enable/disable the output into the log window. The default is to only output warnings and errors. The log file output is unfiltered now. Only the “additional debug output” setting has an impact on the file output.
The PROVEtech:TA Log provides the possibility to enable/disable the text output beside errors/warnings of modules specified by the model at runtime. This way you can reduce the text data transferred to PROVEtech:TA and the text output. The mechanism works via ModelCom and is open for any model platform. At the moment it is supported by PROVEtech:RE.
Option to launch Synopsys Silver with a hidden window.
Changed the handling of Simulink models with the “MdlInfo” S-Function on NI VeriStand to support “*.vsmodel” files. Unfortunately, this is not compatible to older versions and you must update the ModelCom Custom Device in your VeriStand model(s) when using the “MdlInfo” S-Function even without “*.vsmodel” files. Furthermore, VeriStand on PharLab is not supported anymore. PROVEtech:TA supports VeriStand on Windows and NI Linux64.
The TCP connection between PROVEtech:TA and ModelCom now supports IPv6, e.g. when using it with the “Generic TCP” platform.
New XCP setting “MinLength” to control the length of sent CAN(FD) frames.
The folder “Goodies\ModelComAndRTAE\Vector CANoe” contains instructions how to install ModelCom for Vector CANoe (including VT systems).
Bugfix The export of Ethernet messages to the formats ASC, MF4 and PCAPNG exchanged the two generated MAC addresses per message.
Info The PROVEtech:TA Log now uses the prefix “MDL” instead of “HW” for model text output.
7-Zip V24.08
Boost V1.85.0 for regular expressions.
Workpage Feature The message window supports displaying Protocol Buffer content for the payload of SOME/IP messages. Switching from the AUTOSAR SOME/IP standard to Protocol Buffers happens by configuring an additional .proto file directory for the message channel.
In any dialog for message filters it is possible to copy&paste entries of the filter list.
The message window supports AUTOSAR’s BITFIELD_TEXTTABLE when outputting signal values in the detailed view. Other parts like the test language now ignore BITFIELD_TEXTTABLE. So, it is just the numerical value. Please be aware that previous PROVEtech:TA versions did not distinguish the BITFIELD_TEXTTABLE special case and handled it like a normal text table resulting in a wrong value interpretation.
There is now a plugin interface for audio sources additionally to the plugin interface for video sources.
The directory “Goodies\VideoAudioPlugins” has plugins for some industrial cameras and scrcpy for Android devices.
The Workpage configuration page of the settings dialog has a new button “Plugins…” to configure the video/audio and data acquisition format plugin DLLs.
Workaround for AUTOSAR-XML files that define a 1 bit boolean data type for SOME/IP, but in reality a boolean parameter uses 8 bits on SOME/IP.
Test Manager Feature Creation of version branches and display of the version tree in the Info/Version tab. You can use test versions from branches by selection or in combination with the Branch Selection feature.
In the Branch Selection (formerly known as “Baselining”), you can set version branches too. This makes it possible to work on one or more version branches on the local computer, even across entire subtrees and several databases.
The Test Manager toolbar has a new button “Refresh (Ctrl+F5)”.
Remote Sequencer: New tasks can be added in skip status by holding down the Shift key when inserting them (drag & drop or copy & paste). This prevents that the Remote Sequencer executes them before you can edit the entries.
Database Info Oracle ODBC driver V23.5
PostgreSQL ODBC driver V17.00.0002
The installation package contains PostgreSQL server V17.2. Please be aware that there is no automatic update of the PostgreSQL server when you update PROVEtech:TA. Update it manually.
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.105
Test Language Feature Dgn.IsStarted now returns “False” if there is no connection to an MCD-3 D server, e.g. if it was terminated after a timeout or if the currently loaded configuration has no MCD-3 D diagnostics.
ExecutedItem.Stop has a new optional parameter “bTimeout” to mark the stop operation as a timeout when it is “True”. This also continues a test system run at the next elementary test instead of stopping the whole system test run.
GraphTemplate.FontSize added.
System.GetModel has a new optional parameter to get the model node names.
System.ModifyVideoAudioConfig added to create, remove, reinitialize, modify video/audio sources.
TM.Execute, TM.ExecuteAsync and TestItem.Execute have an additional optional Variant parameter “vParameter” to pass any information to the started script and also return information from the started script.
TM.Execute supports specifying macro file paths additionally to Test Manager paths for execution.
TM.ExecuteThis and TM.ExecuteThisAsync added to directly pass scripts to execute.
The “TM” object is now available also without the Test Manager module. Some commands like TM.Execute… work without the Test Manager.
New test language command TestItem.NextVersions which returns all next (newer) test versions or branches of a test version.
New test language command TestItem.Branch which creates a branch of a single release version or an entire released subtree.
New test language object BranchSelection and new associated test language commands Add, GetOrigin, Load, Reset, Save and TestVersions. This is according to the feature “Branch Selection” which was previously known as “Baselining”.
Many commands of the MCD-3 D diagnostics have an additional timeout parameter to terminate the MCD-3 D server when the command does not return before the timeout. This forces the command to return. A timeout value of 0 means using the default timeout value from the “DiagnosticsMCD3D.ini” file.
Bugfix System.LoadXcpParameterFile possibly used the wrong Endian type for CHARACTERISTIC signals without axes.
MCD-3 D Diagnostics Feature The MCD-3 D diagnostics server now runs in a separate process (“DiagnosticsMCD3DExt_DTS64.exe”, “DiagnosticsMCD3DExt_DTS32.exe” or “DiagnosticsMCD3DExt_DSA64.exe” depending on your used MCD-3 D server). In case of a crash or deadlock the PROVEtech:TA process stays alive and the server process can be terminated and restarted. When an MCD-3 D call does not return for 10 seconds, a button appears in the main window as well as a context menu entry for the Windows taskbar icon to terminate the external process manually. As diagnostics now happens within “DiagnosticsMCD3DExt_…exe” instead of “TA.exe”, you might need to change your firewall settings for Diagnostics over IP or the communication with your D PDU API device (e.g. eCOM). It depends on your used firewall software which steps are necessary for that. It is now possible to use PROVEtech:TA 64-bit in combination with DTS 32-bit. Please be aware that all the inter-process communication costs performance.
Enhancements for the flash window.
Fault Simulation Feature Support for dSPACE DS5394C1 or compatible modules.
Info Removed the “EnableHSLegacyInterface” setting that activated the old “Errorsim” and “Cartridge” test language objects. They were replaced by “FaultSim” a long time ago.

Version 2024 SE SP2 (2024-October-18)

Module Type Description
General Feature Additional support for MATLAB 2024b (does not affect dSPACE systems, but MatlabPatch.exe, TOI Library and all other platforms that use MATLAB).
Bugfix Main menu shortcuts did not work anymore.
Macro recording sometimes produced wrong code in case the target language was WWB.NET or WWB.NET/5+.
Copy&paste did not work in some cases for replacement variables in the settings dialog.
Info Increased the maximum value for “ConnectionTimout” to 300000 for most model platforms.
Workpage Feature The .trc file parser for dSPACE models supports “value:” lines where array elements are not separated by comma.
Bugfix Exporting a data acquisition with a signal that has a default text table entry to the MDF3 format produced a wrong file. The MDF3 export now uses version 3.3.0 of the format.
Test Manager Feature When using the baselining feature (new feature name will be “Branch Selection” in PROVEtech:TA 2025), in addition to the test object name the version number is now displayed in the Test Manager tree and in other places.
Bugfix After a drag&drop operation in the Test Manager tree to create a new test object, the wrong test object was selected afterwards, especially for renaming the test object.
Runtime Errors: The application possibly crashed when reading and writing the runtime errors from different threads in parallel (e.g. by the user interface and by the test language).
When using Ctrl+F5 (Refresh) or the test language command TM.ClearCache, error messages could occur that no user is logged in and therefore access rights are missing.
The overview tab could crash in very rare cases due to multithreading. The thread synchronization has now been revised.
Info Result tab: The speed to fetch the data was slow, especially when using the filter bar.
Disable the SmartScreen feature of the Microsoft Edge browser.
Basic Editor Bugfix Some keyboard shortcuts did not work in the dependency window.
Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.099
Automation Library/RTAE Bugfix User defined images in AL protocols were automatically sized to 16×16 pixels. The AL style sheet now does not affect user defined images anymore.
MCD-3 D Diagnostics Bugfix Sometimes parameters of the type UInt were displayed negative.

Version 2024 SE SP1 (2024-August-08)

Module Type Description
General Feature Additional support for dSPACE Release 2024-A.
ModelComAndRTAESetup.exe includes a ModelCom.dll for ARM64X on Windows.
An additional output to the floating license server’s log file helps to distinguish virtual machines that have the same computer name and user name.
Bugfix The mini TCP stack for monitoring SOME/IP on TCP possibly caused a crash or an endless loop in combination with the warning “SomeIpTcp: No free connection…”. This affected importing data acquisitions and the ModelCom module in the model which should be updated.
The PROVEtech:TA Log button of the main toolbar did not stop blinking red when the PROVEtech:TA Log got the focus.
When using borrow licenses, very long timeouts occurred if the license server was located in a VPN network.
When PROVEtech:RE features were borrowed, they were not properly displayed in the license-information dialog.
The newly introduced PROVEtech:RE features “PRE_API” and “PRE_gRPC” were missing in the license-information dialog.
Workpage Bugfix Event macros changing the signal tree at PROVEtech:TA startup could lead to a crash of the workpage in case of unfortunate timing.
Test Manager Bugfix When clicking on syntax check button in the “Execute” tab toolbar, the status in the “Result value” column was not updated.
The tab text “ToDo list” became “Parameter” when changing the language.
When the ToDo list dialog was opened and you switched from the “Test Manager” tab to another tab, the dialog was not closed.
When the Find dialog or ToDo list dialog was open and the “Test Manager” tab was undocked, the dialog windows were hidden by the undocked tab afterwards.
When importing PROVEtech:TA archive files (.dbi.7z files) that contained very large .csv files, an error message occurred.
When fetching older test objects and older test versions, the application possibly crashed (e.g. during export including older test versions).
After the versioning operation “Restore here”, the wrong Basic code was used in the following test execution because of caching.
Info New functionality for versioning in future PROVEtech:TA versions has been prepared with regard to compatibility.
Database Info The installation package contains PostgreSQL server V16.4.
Microsoft SQL Server ODBC driver V18.4.1
Basic Editor Bugfix Ctrl+Q was not working anymore.
Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.089
MCD-3 D Diagnostics Feature The flash window displays only FlashJobs with available flashware.
Bugfix Parameters of a FlashJob were reset to defaults at the start of flashing.
Changing the “MCD-3 D server path” did not always work in the settings dialog.
The filter window for columns did sometimes not accept any user input.
The sorting got lost in the request view when changing an entry.

Version 2024 SE (2024-May-31)

Module Type Description
General Feature Support for a dark mode, which requires Windows 10 22H2 or later. PROVEtech:TA uses the Windows dark mode setting for applications as default. You can override this in the common PROVEtech:TA settings to always use light mode or dark mode. Please be aware that the old Internet Explorer does not support the dark mode. To have the dark mode for test protocols, test descriptions and test result descriptions, please install Microsoft WebView 2 for Edge on Chromium.
Menu item “Application|Load CCP/XCP parameter file…” to write CCP/XCP signals with the content of a Vector CANape .par file.
More dialogs like the settings dialog support resizing now and optionally show scroll bars if the size is too small for the content.
Macro recording now uses the ‘#Language setting preferred by the user. Previously it was always “WWB-COM”.
New context menu entry “Duplicate this model” in the settings dialog.
If there are additional replacement variables created by System.SetReplacementVar() which are not present in the configuration, the settings dialog now displays them as runtime dependent replacement variables.
New button in the license information dialog for floating licenses to copy all active license names (FlexNet features) to the clipboard (e.g. for the parameters to borrow licenses for offline usage).
For Synopsys Silver you can now create several PROVEtech:TA read-only signals from one Silver signal. For manipulation signals it is possible to additionally create an output signal towards Silver for the “Active” signal.
The directory “Goodies\WorkpageParser” contains a WinWrap Basic library for reading/writing PROVEtech:TA workpage and cockpit files. It works similar to a generic XML parser which can read any valid XML file but does not understand/validate the content. So, “WorkpageParser” can read and write workpage and cockpit files, but it does not know valid or invalid workpage settings.
When using dSPACE LabBox (DS6001) or MicroAutoBox III (DS1403) it is now not necessary anymore to specify the secondary IP addresses in the PROVEtech:TA configuration. PROVEtech:TA now reads the custom IP configuration directly from the dSPACE boards via FTP if the “OverwriteAddr” setting is empty.
Additional support for MATLAB 2024a (does not affect dSPACE systems, but MatlabPatch.exe, TOI Library and all other platforms that use Matlab).
Additional support for NI VeriStand 2024 (no support anymore for NI VeriStand 2019).
Possibility to configure a NI VeriStand or Generi TCP model to run in parallel to e.g. a dSPACE model.
The License information dialog now also shows the PROVEtech:RE license names (FlexNet features), which are currently in use.
Bugfix The FlexNet license-giveback during application shutdown was not correctly logged in the license server’s logfile.
When borrowing FlexNet licenses locally, the PROVEtech:TA log and the license information dialog did not display some information correctly.
Info The PROVEtech:TA-internal FlexNet licensing component has been updated to version 11.19.6. If PROVEtech:TA 2024 SE or future PROVEtech:TA versions are used together with a FlexNet licence server, the licence server must also be updated to the latest FlexNet version. An updated license server is compatible with all older PROVEtech:TA versions. Please contact our PROVEtech support for this.
After the first login of the PROVEtech:TA user “provetech” and “admin”, the default password must be changed.
No support anymore for using the obsolete “SlrtAbstraction.dll” with “Generic TCP”. Directly use “Simulink Real-Time for Speedgoat” in the platform selection instead.
The option “Close model when closing PROVEtech:TA” for a PROVEtech:RE/AICORE model now also closes the model when it was only reconnected instead of loaded before.
Workpage Feature Possibility to specify a signal per control for checking the activity (signal value changes). The control’s background color fades to a different color after a while of inactivity. As an example, you can use the “RX_Time” signal of a PDU for checking the activity and the background color changes when the PDU is not received for a while. This works for all the standard controls like number and strip chart controls.
Possibility to set a Basic handler for mouse messages on a video window.
The message window now remembers the last expansion state of I-PDUs and SOME/IP parameters for the detail view.
The message window detail view has a context menu entry to copy the whole displayed list to the clipboard as tab separated text table.
Extended filter possibility in the message window for SOME/IP and I-PDU messages on IP/Ethernet channels to filter not only the I-PDU name but also the transport protocol (e.g. UDP/IPv6), source/target IP addresses and port numbers.
Possibility to set colors for filters in the message window. If a pass filter matches, the according text output in the message window uses that color.
Setting IPv6 addresses for filters now supports short variants of IPv6 addresses like “::1”.
The workpage/cockpit tab bar has an additional button for adding new pages. The left/right buttons beside it support repeated scrolling when holding them and the tab bar supports mouse wheel scrolling.
Shift + mouse wheel scrolls the workpage or the cockpit horizontally.
The silder / bar display control supports setting an individual background color for the number display.
The switch / LED control supports setting the colors for the “active” signal switch.
Buttons on custom controls now do not erase their area with the background color before drawing. This way the actual background (e.g. a bitmap) stays visible in uncovered parts.
For some of the old “special controls” like the 6-speed shift control you can now change the background color.
Possibility to rotate video camera input by 90°, 180° or 270°.
Test Manager Feature Remote sequencer: Scheduling with automatic execution of test programs at the planned date/times with the option of repetition.
When creating a new project or library, a description text can now also be set directly in the dialog.
PROVEtech:TA users can be prompted to change their passwords at the next login, for example after creating a new user.
For cyber security reasons, failed login attempts are logged at the Test Manager root object when logging is switched on.
Even with many runtime errors, the last decisive error that caused the test run to be aborted is now displayed in the “Runtime Errors” tab.
The “Users” tab shows a tooltip in the “Last logged on” column with the information whether two-factor authentication is activated for the user.
Comments with keyword #TODO, #NOTE or #INFO in the test program code to set reminders can now be displayed in an overview list (for a test item as well as a subtree).
Possibility to manage templates for custom user attributes, which can be assigned to users and filled with data.
Redesigned the “Find tests and results” dialog for a better user experience.
Bugfix While creating release and developer versions on another computer, it could happen that the wrong Basic scripts were loaded from the cache instead of from the database via ‘#Uses command.
PROVEtech:TA possibly crashed when using the extended context menu.
Info Versioning: The creation of a developer test version on an old release version has been deactivated due to features planned for the future. Creating a developer version on the current release version (which is the standard case) works as usual.
Database Bugfix Creating the database schema for an additional database connection resulted in an error message.
Info When the PROVEtech:TA client creates the database structure for the first time, very old unused date columns are no longer present in the database tables. This should not cause any problems when connecting with older PROVEtech:TA versions. However, this must be considered when setting up a database replication.
Oracle ODBC driver V21.13
Microsoft SQL Server ODBC driver V18.3.3
PostgreSQL ODBC driver V16.00.0005
The installation package contains PostgreSQL server V16.3.
Basic Editor Feature Setting “DefaultLocale” in TM.ini to set the default locale when starting WinWrap Basic scripts. It corresponds to calling the “SetLocale” WinWrap Basic command before executing “Sub Main”. As an example, this has an influence on the decimal separator for String to/from floating point value conversions (point vs. comma). The “SetLocale” command can still overwrite it during a script execution.
Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.085
Test Language Feature DgnJob.SpecialDataKeys, DgnJob.SpecialDataValue, DgnService.SpecialDataKeys and DgnService.SpecialDataValue added.
Evaluation.AddSignalsToExtractFromMessages and Evaluation.ExtractSignalsFromMessages added to extract signals from messages (I-PDUs) and write the time stamped values to an MF4 file.
ExecutedItem.TestResult added.
Systen.LoadXcpParameterFile to write CCP/XCP signals with the content of a Vector CANape .par file.
UserItem.ChangePasswordRequired to prompt a user to change their password at the next login.
UserItem.CustomAttributes, class UserCustomAttribute and class UserCustomAttributes added.
Setting RawIpMsg.SourceIp, RawIpMsg.TargetIp, SomeIpMsg.SourceIp, SomeIpMsg.TargetIp, RawIp6Filter.SourceIpMin/Max and RawIp6Filter.TargetIpMin/Max now support short variants of IPv6 addresses like “::1” when setting them.
Class IPduOnIpFilter for I-PDU messages on IP/Ethernet channels to filter not only for the I-PDU name but also the transport protocol (e.g. UDP/IPv6) and source/target IP addresses and port numbers.
MCD-3 D Diagnostics Feature Optional filter bar for request and response parameters.
Coding domains with the same DID are automatically synchronized to the same coding string.
Bugfix Created SGDE files contained double entries if two domains with the same DID were included.
In Coding domains UInt parameter values were displayed as Int (e.g. -1 instead of 0xFFFFFFFF).
Fault Simulation Info Using the dSPACE SCALEXIO fault simulation variant via XiL API now requires at least the .NET Framework V4.7.2.

Version 2024 SP2 (2024-April-08)

Module Type Description
General Bugfix Linking of ModelCom on dSPACE PHS bus systems failed (bug in ModelCom.lib generated by ModelComAndRTAESetup.exe). Now also additional support for dSPACE Release 2023-B for PHS bus systems.
ModelCom for Synopsys Silver used the wrong initial value for the “Control” signal of “Manip” blocks.
Loading faulty AR-XML files possibly crashed PROVEtech:TA.
Workpage Bugfix I-PDU view had issues with multi-line descriptions and displayed selected secured PDUs with a wrong text color.
The grid control possibly painted the signal values not vertically centered.
Test Manager Bugfix In the remote sequencer client: Moving a sequencer item up or down led to an error if the remote sequencer server was actually a different computer.
Creating system tests via the user interface was impossible while using Chinese as there was a space character at the end of the translation.
Database Info The installation package contains PostgreSQL server V16.2.
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.076
MCD-3 D Diagnostics Feature Switching LongName/ShortName now possible for all request parameters in the request window.
Bugfix The search window ignored the selection of LongName or ShortName.

Version 2024 SP1 (2024-February-06)

Module Type Description
General Feature Additional support for dSPACE Release 2023-B (currently only tested for SCALEXIO systems).
Bugfix Loading ETAS LabCar models via the test language possibly failed.
In case of using floating licenses, the license giveback during application shutdown was not correctly logged in the license server’s log file.
The title bar tooltip appeared sometimes when the mouse cursor was outside the title bar.
Test Manager Bugfix Importing a .mac file without header information using the “Replace contents only” button did not work correctly.
When performing operations in the Test Manager tree on older data (such as copying with reference to previous versions), the error message “nVersionRootId==0” could occur.
In “TestAutomation” URI references, the handling of special characters in Test Manager paths was not correct, especially when using “%26” to encode “&”.
An automatic update of the test protocol view led to a loss of the keyboard focus under certain circumstances. After updating the protocol using Ctrl+F5, it led to an incomplete protocol stored in the database.
In the HTML Text Edit control the Edge web browser sometimes added an HTML tag for spell checking into the plain text, so that it was then handled as HTML code.
Database Info Further database checks: If the database permission to modify the database schema was revoked (e.g. on a replication system), several warnings and error messages appeared while performing further database checks. These checks are now skipped.
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.067, which has a compatibility breaking change due to a bugfix: it wrongly allowed accessing private members of an embedded class outside the class in some cases.

Version 2024 (2023-November-30)

Module Type Description
General Feature While loading a model the “please wait” window now directly shows the model text output. In case you load it manually (not via the test language) and it fails, the window stays open and you can directly analyze the output there instead of opening the PROVEtech:TA Log. This is only relevant for PROVEtech:RE, AICORE, dSPACE and Opal-RT RT-LAB models.
Possibility to start several PROVEtech:TA processes in the same Windows session with the command line parameter “/multi” and an according license. As an example, this provides a way to test several devices under test controlled by different model hardware/software in parallel completely independent from each other.
Command line parameter “/gRPC:…” to specify gRPC configurations additionally to the ones in the TM.ini file.
Command line parameter “/totp:…” for two-factor-authentication via command line (not recommended for security reasons).
The main menu “Data acquisition” has two new entries: One for opening the data acquisition settings and one for creating a macro that restores all the current data acquisition settings via the commands Measure.SetMessageFilter, Measure.SetVideoAudio, Measure.SetParameters and Measure.SetSignals.
If you hover your mouse over the main window’s title bar, a tooltip will appear with the unabridged system information like configuration, model, etc.
IPv6 support for XCP on UDP and TCP (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model).
Support for additional XCP resume mode variant with “ResumeMode?=2” in the .cfg file (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model).
Support for TAB_INTP COMPU_METHOD type for CCP/XCP (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model).
The export of measurement data to the MDF or MF4 format now exports the signal text tables default value according to the ASAM standard.
The export of measurement data to the MF4 format now uses data compression.
The model configuration page has a button for opening an extra dialog to edit expert settings (additional .cfg file settings).
The configuration page for dSPACE models now has a field for the “OverwriteAddr” entry of the .cfg file.
The configuration page for Generic TCP models now has a field for the “ConnectTimeout” entry of the .cfg file.
Additional support for NI VeriStand 2023 (no support anymore for NI VeriStand 2017 and 2018).
Additional support for MATLAB 2023b (does not affect dSPACE systems, but MatlabPatch.exe, etc.).
When creating a technical report, adding the screenshot is now optional.
Technical reports have additional dSPACE logs directly fetched via the SCALEXIO / MicroAutoBox III web interface in JSON format.
Info For dSPACE systems PROVEtech:TA now first tries to find “CmdLoader.exe” in a dSPACE RPC and HIL installation before a ControlDesk installation. The RPC and HIL installation is the one typically used for the model build and thus should have a higher priority than ControlDesk, which could be from a different dSPACE release not fitting to the model.
No 32-bit PROVEtech:TA variant anymore.
Bugfix Importing .asc files with “base dec” header and CAN FD messages did not work.
Workpage Feature The message window shows a tooltip when moving the mouse over I-PDU or SOME/IP messages. The tool tip displays information about the transporting message like CAN Id, IP addresses, etc.
In overwrite mode the message window uses separate lines for I-PDU or SOME/IP messages with the same name/service but different transporting messages (different CAN Id, IP addresses, etc.).
The message window has a context menu entry to copy the whole displayed list to the clipboard as tab separated text table.
The file selection dialog that opens when pressing the save button of the message window has two new file extension entries for CSV files. These save the window content as comma or semicolon separated text table file, e.g. to import it in Microsoft Excel.
Support for Diagnostic Log and Trace (DLT) version 1 in the message window and export/import of .dlt files.
Context menu entry in the offline mode for video controls to play the video in a media player window beginning at the currently displayed time.
No need to reopen a data acquisition in the offline mode after changing a message channel configuration. Changes are immediately active.
In the offline mode the message window and its properties dialog has a context menu entry for changing a message channel configuration.
Test Manager Feature Versioning: Faster access to the version chain of a test object and more fault tolerance, for example with regard to asynchronous database replication.
Versioning: New Basic handler before creating a release version. The operation can be aborted by parameter.
While debugging a test script, a temporary test result is now generated for the debug session.
In the Results tab, there is the additional column “Computer”.
In the Results tab, there is a filter button in the toolbar to filter in the different columns of the Results list. Here you can filter by substring, case-insensitive. For the columns “Execution time”, “Date/Time” and “Deleted on” (if visible), you can also specify ranges, e.g. 10.5-25.0 for “Execution time” or 08/20/2022-05/31/2023 or “Date/Time”.
In the Overview tab there is an additional filter option for the “Computer” field (exact match).
Macro recording for TestItem, TestResult, TestParameter, TestDocument, Attachment, UserItem, UserGroup, SequencerServer and TestSequencerItem is now included.
Info Microsoft Edge component “WebView2” updated to v1.0.2088.41.
Bugfix The message boxes for an incorrect web browser initialization are now removed. These message boxes could cause PROVEtech:TA to stall if it was started without a graphical user interface.
When the initialization of the Microsoft Edge browser failed, the fallback initialization of Microsoft Internet Explorer was not working.
When using the Tab key to navigate the application, instances of the Microsoft Edge browser could cause the application to freeze.
Database Feature New global database settings to limit the size of large objects (test documents, protocols, attachments) when saving. This feature can avoid problems, especially when database replication is active. These settings are managed in the properties dialog of the root object (database object) in the Test Manager tree. The setting is stored in the database and, in case of a running database replication, synchronized with all nodes. Requirement for other PROVEtech:TA clients connecting to this database is PROVEtech:TA version 2024 or newer.
When creating a release version, especially across a big subtree, the number of SQL queries has been reduced by more than half. Also the storage consumption in the database and the update traffic regarding database replication is reduced. Full compatibility, for example when creating developer versions, is given from PROVEtech:TA 2023 SP4.
Info PostgreSQL 11 stops receiving fixes on November 9, 2023. If you are running PostgreSQL 11 or older in a production environment, we suggest that you make plans to upgrade to a newer, supported version of PostgreSQL.
The installation package contains PostgreSQL server V16.1.
PostgreSQL ODBC driver V16.00.0000
Microsoft SQL Server ODBC driver V18.3.2 (Attention: Microsoft has increased the security precautions here. If you receive an error message regarding the server certificate while establishing a database connection, please renew the certificate or set TrustServerCertificate=Yes in the connection options. See also in the manual.)
Oracle ODBC driver V21.12
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.060
Test Language Feature The Evaluation.Open method has an event for providing necessary information like AR-XML file paths when opening the data acquisition. This prevents showing a dialog to provide the necessary information or corrects paths of referenced files.
The gRPC server now supports the test language events via bidirectional streaming.
GUI.CreateImage now also works in the online mode to create an image of workpage controls showing the current signal values including graphs showing the latest values of a running data acquisition.
MsgQueue.AddDltChannel and MsgQueue.RemoveDltChannel for accessing devices supporting Diagnostic Log and Trace (DLT) version 1 via TCP (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model). Additional support classes DltFilter, DltMsg and DltControlRequestMsg. The actual DLT TCP communication happens via ModelCom.
System.ModifyModelNodeConfig added to switch the AICORE configuration (signals) at runtime.
Added additional enum value AccessRight.arNone, which stands for 0, meaning all access rights are revoked.
TestResult.Computer can now be read and written while the corresponding test is running in the same PROVEtech:TA session. This allows to store additional host information with the test result.
TestItem.GetResults has an additional optional filter parameter “strComputer”, corresponding to TestItem.GetSubTreeResults (exact match, if set).
Dgn.ReinitDoIP to reinitialize DoIP interface (e.g. to identify new ECUs) and Dgn.DoIPInfo to get details on the Ethernet connection.
Automation Library/RTAE Feature Possibility to influence the link creation between the RTAE instances on dSPACE SCALEXIO/MicroAutoBox III with the new RTAE. You can decrease the number of links or change the link sizes to optimize the IOCNET traffic.
RT.GetExecutionUnitStatus added to get the current usage status for each execution unit and the amount of available execution units (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model).
Info Increased the amount of execution units from 7 to 15 (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model).
Bugfix The old RTAE variant did not work on dSPACE SCALEXIO anymore.
MCD-3 D Diagnostics Feature Entering parameter values is more comfortable now: Pressing Enter jumps to the next parameter and you can set several parameters to the same value via multi-select.
Bugfix In the MCD-3 D diagnostics configuration window the list of detected diagnostics servers did not always contain the newest installed versions.
CAESAR Diagnostics Bugfix In the window “User defined read errors” the “extended data record number” was not treated correctly.

 

Version 2023 SE SP2 (2023-September-14)

Module Type Description
General Bugfix ModelCom and RTAE caused model crashes on 64-bit dSPACE SCALEXIO systems. The RTAE crashed due to a GCC compiler bug and Ethernet monitoring crashed due to an interface change. Please update ModelCom (includes the RTAE) in your model.
Loading a model with a parallel AICORE node did not work anymore since version 2023 SE SP1 (it only worked in combination with PROVEtech:RE).
Sometimes a change of Basic code for widgets or handlers was ignored after a runtime error within the Basic code when recreating the widget or reloading the handler.
Saving data acquisitions with several signal groups in the TDMS format did not work as TDMS does not allow the same group name twice. Now the group names are “Group1”, “Group2”, etc.
Info 7-Zip V23.01 due to CVE-2023-31102 (security risk).
Database Info The installation package contains PostgreSQL server V15.4 in the 64-bit variant.
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.052
Test Language Bugfix TestItem.Delete could crash when emptying the trash folder.
Info Keyword values: In Debug execution of a WinWrap Basic script, the destructor of a TestResult object now resets the list of keyword values. This has still some side effects, but PROVEtech:TA 2024 will finally fix this issue.

Version 2023 SE SP1 (2023-August-03)

Module Type Description
General Feature Additional support for dSPACE Release 2023-A.
Bugfix When adding AICORE as additional model node, passing a config file path with space characters failed due to missing quotation marks around it in the command line.
MF4 import: Channel numbers possibly overflew due to casting from 32-bit to 16-bit. Now the numbers are mapped to zero based numbers instead.
MF4 import: Normal signals within a channel group that describe a bus event (message) caused issues. Now they are ignored.
Workpage Bugfix The signal selection window displayed wrong folder names for CCP/XCP signals when the root node name had several hierarchy levels.
Selecting signals to extract from Ethernet I-PDUs in the offline mode hung in an endless loop.
When a 2nd workpage window was open and a shutdown during a new login happened, the 2nd workpage was missing after the next start.
Test Manager Bugfix 2-factor-authentication: The PROVEtech:TA administrator had the ability to create the second factor for 2-factor-authentication via TOTP for another user and could thereby see the secret initial TOTP key. Now the PROVEtech:TA administrator can create a new user without 2-factor-authentication. When the new user logs in for the first time and 2-factor-authentication is mandatory, the user must initialize the second factor by themself.
The release operation could result in an error message if there were linked test objects that were hidden due to missing access rights.
Database Feature Consistency check: Output of a unique number for each individual SQL query to ensure data consistency.
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.047
Test Language Bugfix Application.SetWatchdog(0) did not disable the timer to display the restart warning window. However, after 30 seconds the window just closed without any harm done.
Info Calling Application.SetWatchdog without a script path deletes a previously set script path. To start a script after a crash/restart, the script path must be set in every call.
MCD-3 D Diagnostics Bugfix Flash window: When ECUs were not activated at start of flashing, a wrong ECU might be activated.
Flash window: Drag&dropped FlashKeys were sometimes displayed in the wrong ECU’s branch.

Version 2023 SE (2023-May-31)

Module Type Description
General Feature Two-factor authentication for PROVEtech:TA login using Time-based one-time password (TOTP). For this you need for example the Microsoft Authenticator or the Google Authenticator as a second factor. The PROVEtech:TA administrator can control whether this is optional or mandatory.
Attention: Older PROVEtech:TA versions ignore the setting “Two-factor authentication is mandatory”. This means that a classic login is still possible. However, if the user has switched to two-factor authentication, the user can no longer log in with older PROVEtech:TA versions.
The MF4 data acquisition import now supports CAN (FD)/LIN/FlexRay/Ethernet (UDP/TCP) messages beside signals according to the ASAM standard.
While importing an .asc file data acquisition it is possible to select a specific channel of the specified .arxml file for each .asc channel. Previously the import always used the first .arxml channel.
XCP supports the AUTOSAR single pointered calibration variant (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model).
XCP on CAN FD supports the .a2l file parameter CAN_FD\MAX_DLC_REQUIRED.
Option to use DISPLAY_IDENTIFIER entries of the .a2l file for CCP/XCP signal names.
The PROVEtech:TA Log has the “show additional debug output” setting in the toolbar and the menu now instead of the settings dialog. The hotkey Ctrl+D also toggles it.
The tree-list control used at a lot of places within PROVEtech:TA now displays a tooltip for column headers if the column header text does not fit in the space. Furthermore, you can right-click on a column header to have several automatic resize options.
Support for MATLAB 2023a (does not affect dSPACE systems, but MatlabPatch.exe, etc.).
Info This is the last version supporting the 32-bit variant. PROVEtech:TA 2017 SE was the first version containing the 64-bit variant beside the 32-bit variant. Beginning with PROVEtech:TA 2024 only the 64-bit variant exists. The manual chapter “2.10 PROVEtech:TA 32-bit and 64-bit” describes what migrating from 32-bit to 64-bit means for you.
As our company name changed, we use a new default directory structure. The default installation path is “C:\Program Files\PROVEtechTA”. The default configuration path is “C:\Users\Public\Documents\PROVEtechTA”. The license file path is “C:\Users\Public\Documents\PROVEtechLicense\License.key”, but it will also check the old directory if it does not find it there.
As UI:TestAId for fast AI driven image and sound recognition is now AICORE, we renamed it in the user interface and manual as well.
Workpage Feature An automatic recover mechanism can save cockpit and workpage changes in the background to a local directory. In case of a crash and a restart, a window pops up to recover these cockpit and workpage files.
The offline mode supports extracting signals from message I-PDUs by using information from AUTOSAR-XML, .dbc or .ldf files referenced by message channels. You can view these signals side by side to other signals of the opened data acquisition. The signal selection window has toolbar buttons to add/remove such I-PDU signals.
The offline mode shows an exclamation mark icon right of the overview graph in case the selected time range is too long to load all messages within that range into the memory.
In the offline mode opening video/audio files of the data acquisition via the context menu of the overview graph now opens an internal media player instead of an external program. The mouse cursor position of the right-click determines the start time of the playback.
If a video camera gets disconnected and connected again, the video capturing continues automatically if possible (not for video sources handled via the plugin interface).
The message window has a pause toolbar button to pause the message reception for that window in the online mode. While paused, the visible messages stay in the window even if the global message ring buffer removes the messages. And you can save the visible messages.
The message window handles AUTOSAR end-to-end profiles 7m and 44m in the detailed view for SOME/IP messages now.
The message window displays more information for SOME/IP Service Discovery messages in the detail view.
The I-PDU view has the possibility to select only one ECU to view via the context menu or a drop down button on the first column of the header.
The I-PDU view for Automotive Ethernet AUTOSAR-XML files has tooltips for the ECUs to display the IP addresses and the MAC addresses if available.
The I-PDU view shows transmitter and receiver ECUs and signal multiplexing information in the tooltips for PDUs.
The I-PDU view has a context menu item for copying the tooltip text to the clipboard.
Setting to use the background color of the slider / bar display control also for its number display in case the signal is writable. Previously, it was the Windows default color for writable signals (typically white).
Bugfix Changing the measurement signal list crashed in case the list contained hidden signals and showing hidden signals was disabled in the signal selection window.
Test Manager Feature New “User groups” tab and dialog for managing user groups and their associated users and access rights. Caution: Concerning compatibility, you may make a mix-up if you edit user groups and access rights with older PROVEtech:TA versions as well. For example, a user whose access rights are actually managed by the user group may still have different access rights then.
When exporting to a PROVEtech:TA archive file (.dbi.7z file), it is now possible to click “Include user data (Caution: Data privacy)”, provided that access rights to all users are available. This allows users to be correctly assigned again when importing into another database, given that the login names also exist there, but possibly under a different database ID.
In the “Execute” tab, the icons for the test objects are now displayed corresponding to the Test Manager tree.
Test protocols: After a crash of the Edge web browser and its automatic restart, the “big protocol” warnings are suppressed for the next user interface update.
In the result protocols, additional files within the .hdr measurement (e.g. video files) now can be referenced by the “taref:” scheme.
All internal browser errors of Microsoft Edge are now also displayed in the PROVEtech:TA Log window.
Removing the current test version of a system test, project, library or user library is now possible as well
Added test result comments are now always stored in the database in HTML code. This means that some characters are changed, which must be taken into account by the user during manual search and replace operations (as an example, the character < is treated as <).
Bugfix When deleting a current test version, there was no check for name conflicts with the older test version and sibling test objects.
PROVEtech:TA hung if the execution of all elementary tests within a system test were skipped via the basic handler “ControlExecution”.
PROVEtech:TA hung in rare cases when the HTML Text Edit control received the focus.
Sometimes the test result protocols were not rendered by the Edge browser and the page stayed white. PROVEtech:TA has a possible workaround for this now.
Database Info No support any longer for PostgreSQL server version 10 or older. It could happen that in future PROVEtech:TA versions there will be problems or error messages. If still in use, please migrate your data to the current server version via backup and restore.
If database replication with SymmetricDS is in use, more information from the “sym_” configuration tables is now included in the report file.
Oracle ODBC driver V21.9
Basic Editor Feature User specific option for automatically inserting space characters after separators like commas (default is “on”).
The “Go To Definition Of …” feature now also works when the keyboard cursor (caret) is directly behind a symbol name.
Type * in the Watch window and press Enter to watch all variables of the current function. Type.* and press Enter for all variables of that object. As an example, type Me.* and press Enter to watch all variables of the current object.
The new WinWrap Basic version can evaluate preprocessor directives in opposite to the WinWrap Basic version of PROVEtech:TA 2023, which could only ignore them. Versions prior to 2023 did not support preprocessor directives at all (syntax error). In the “TM.ini” file you can set “WWBPreprocessor” within the section [General] to either ignore the preprocessor directives like version 2023 or enable them and define preprocessor constants. The default is to enable the preprocessor evaluation but have no predefined constants.
The new WinWrap Basic version supports the new command “MacroData” for embedding multi-line strings like XML easier in the script code.
Setting “WWB.NetVersionMax” in the “TM.ini” section [General] to set the maximum .NET 5+ version to use, e.g. “WWB.NetVersionMax=6”. So, if your IT department or a different software installs a newer .NET version which might be incompatible to your scripts, you can go back to a lower version. Please be aware that breaking compatibility is Microsoft’s choice and Microsoft does not allow to use several .NET 5+ versions at the same time in one process.
Info WinWrap Basic V10.52.039
Test Language Feature Application.GetExecutedBeforeWatchdogRestart added.
DgnJob.DbResponse, DgnJob.DbResponseCount, DgnService.DbResponse and DgnService.DbResponseCount added (including new classes DgnDbResponse and DgnDbResponseParam).
DgnCodingDomain.Description, DgnCodingDomain.LongName, DgnDtc.LongName, DgnEcu.Description, DgnEcu.LongName, DgnJob.Description, DgnJob.LongName, DgnParam.Description, DgnParam.LongName, DgnResponse.Description, DgnResponse.LongName, DgnResponseParam.Description, DgnResponseParam.LongName, DgnService.Description, DgnService.LongName added.
System.GetSignal/SetSignal create a more detailed error text in case of an error for CCP/XCP signals (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model).
TM.UserGroups added to get a collection of all user groups of the corresponding database.
UserGroups and UserGroup classes added to control user groups and their attributes.
TestItem.AccessRightsUserGroup added to control the access rights of a user group and all its assigned users.
TestItem.Export has a new flag “iefIncludeUsers”, which is taken into account if appropriate access rights are available (see Test Manager section).
Info TestItem.AccessRights now also considers whether the user is managed by a user group.
UserItem.Group: If the user group does not exist, an error message is returned. In previous PROVEtech:TA versions any strings were possible here and there were no references to other data structures.
Automation Library/RTAE Feature On multi-node systems reading variables/signals from remote nodes might take one model step less as the remote node copies the data already at the end of a model step instead of the beginning of the next step (needs an update of the ModelCom module in the model; only available for the new RTAE and not on old dSPACE PHS bus systems).
Bugfix Accessing structure arrays failed in some cases due to missing structure padding.
Diagnostics MCD-3 D Feature Search window: searching in response parameter names is now possible.
Coding domain parametrization window: toggling between “ShortName” and “LongName” for fragments at runtime.
Window for flashing several flash files in one step. Simply drag a file or folder containing flash files into the main Diagnostics window.

 

Version 2023 SP4 (2023-May-22)

Module Type Description
General Bugfix The MF4 data acquisition import rejected valid files in some cases.
Test Manager Bugfix When deleting a current test version, there was no check for name conflicts with the older test version and sibling test objects.
When versioning across whole subtrees, it could happen that after deleting a current test version, the reference to the sibling test objects did not fit anymore.
Fetching very large Basic scripts from the database took much longer than expected.
PROVEtech:TA hung if the execution of all elementary tests within a system test were skipped via the basic handler “ControlExecution”.
Operations on the test result could lead to the error message “TM: Unknown test result path for result id {…}, child id is {0}!” due to a multi-threading problem.
With Microsoft Edge, changing the language setting during the PROVEtech:TA session (for example, when changing the logged-on user) caused errors.
The <href>-hyperlinks in the HTML text editing control were incorrect when pointing to folders instead of files.
In rare cases the application freezed when the HTML text edit control received the focus.
Sometimes the result protocols were not rendered by the Edge browser. Only a white page was displayed. A workaround for this problem has been implemented.
Info When creating a developer version of a test object, compatibility with PROVEtech:TA 2024 and later is guaranteed. From PROVEtech:TA 2024 on, the creation of release versions will be faster, especially across subtrees.
Database Bugfix After trying to log on with PROVEtech:TA 2023 SP3 and the password was not changed since PROVEtech:TA 2019 SE, PROVEtech:TA 2023 SP3 returned the error message “Connecting to database: It is not possible to process this operation because the user is not logged on.”
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.51.084

Version 2023 SP3 (2023-March-30)

Module Type Description
General Info As UI:TestAId for fast AI driven image recognition will be renamed to AICORE, PROVEtech:TA now accepts AICORE.exe additionally to TestAId.exe as a UI:TestAId executable.
The command line now handles the parameter /mnr even if the parameter /u (user name) is not specified.
Workpage Feature Better performance for adding/removing measure signals.
Bugfix Duplicating sub elements of custom controls or moving their Z-order did sometimes not display correct values for them afterwards in the offline mode.
In rare cases operations with strip chart controls could lead to a crash after starting a data acquisition failed.
The min/max output of number controls possibly displayed uninitialized values when viewing a data acquisition.
DirectX 11.1 is a minimum requirement for using PROVtech:TA. Nevertheless, it tries to run without some features in case the graphics card has no DirectX 11.1 support. This caused a crash in some cases.
Test Manager Feature The internal language setting of Microsoft Edge is now according to The language setting of PROVEtech:TA.
All internal browser errors of Microsoft Edge are now also displayed in The PROVEtech:TA Log window.
Bugfix The check and warning for very large test protocols was also performed for file types other than *.html and *.xml.
Result comments could not be deleted by the PROVEtech:TA admin user. Also plain text was saved wrong in the PROVEtech:TA database.
The display of the result comment was wrong when selecting a result as PROVEtech:TA admin user immediately after no comment was displayed, for example due to multiple selection.
Double-clicking on a test document or attachment did not open it if the file name contained an ampersand (&).
In the “Overview” tab, the context menu item “Copy path” and the corresponding hotkey Ctrl+C did not work.
Database Info User groups without references to users were deleted during a database purge. Because of compatibility with newer PROVEtech:TA versions, this step is now skipped.
The installation package contains PostgreSQL server V15.2 in the 64-bit variant.
Basic Editor Info WinWrap Basic V10.51.073
Test Language Feature Faster execution time for TestItem.GetResults with “Validated” filter parameters due to improved database SQL queries.
Bugfix In the Basic debugger, System.GetProtocol returned the last protocol name of the previous debug run when starting a new debug run and calling it before System.ChangeProtocol.
Basic handler methods like “ControlExecution” were not able to start external COM servers. PROVEtech:TA has now a workaround for that Microsoft Windows issue.
The DgnParam.ReadOnly property falsely returned “True” for complex parameters.
TestItem.EstimatedExecutionTime did not properly work if the test object had more than one older test version.
Automation Library/RTAE Bugfix Running a new real-time program with RT.FarCall2 after RT.Detach in the same WinWrap Basic instance did not work.
The Automation Library sometimes wrongly skipped some folders in the test protocol output when LogStyle=lsExecutedOnly (switch, repeat, loop).