9 System Logging Tool

Since reliability is an important feature to automotive information systems, the performance and functionality of the debug tool have a significant impact on the development process. The debugging of an automotive information system in particular involves analyzing problems with low repeatability that involve extended test drives. Because a remote debugging environment linked with Platform Builder cannot be used in the error analysis for a test drive, the common practice is to store the error log in a non-volatile storage device and use the log data to analyze the causes of recorded errors after the test. The System Logging Tool saves error logs and enables error analysis even if a remote debugging environment is not available.