Test-Driven Development of IEEE 1451 Transducer Services and Application

IEEE 1451 standard defines the methods of integrating smart transducers into communicating networks. Interface between a user application and a field of transducers, known as Transducer Services API is defined by standrad IEEE 1451.0. This paper presents the use of Test- Driven Design (TDD) in developing methods for accessing transducer services using Transducer Services API and developing web applications which access this services over the network. The characteristics of TDD and its benefits are presented and the way of realization for one method is shown using Java and JUnit framework to run tests.