Integration testing of 800xA System Installer component variants

ABB is the world leader in the production of industrial automation solutions and equipments in many sectors such as oil and gas, mining, robotics, power grids, renewable energy, and so on. With more than four decades at the forefront of digital technologies, ABB is a leader in digitally connected and enabled industrial equipment and systems with an installed base of more than 70,000 control systems connecting 70 million devices.  More than 1000 industrial companies, factories, and plants worldwide use the ABB’s 800xA distributed control system. The software on this system needs to be configured and customized for different customers both before deployment and on-site. Together with the partners in XIVT, ABB seeks to solve the challenge of testing different configurations of 800xA system. Participation in XIVT enables ABB to keep its leading position in the market due to cost and time reduction through more effective and automated testing solutions and identifying bugs that can stay undetected when a product variant is instantiated and configured from a product line. This, in turn, helps and enables to deliver higher quality products (than the competitors) to the market. XIVT results have the potential to be adopted by several of our development offices across the world.