System and method for testing devices

Abstract

A system and method for providing seamless communication with threads executing on an embedded computer. Using a DAT system, a programmer can test the communication interfaces of a thread via either a scripting program, any COM-compliant program, or a graphical test utility. The DAT system automatically formats a block of data that is transmitted between the embedded computer and a host computer and accounts for machine specific enumeration sizes, machine specific pointer sizes, machine specific structure alignment boundaries, machine specific integer sizes, and machine specific byte ordering.

1 . A method comprising:
 transmitting a request from a host device to a target device to intercept a call from an invoking routine to an invoked routine;   intercepting the call;   collecting at least one parameter that is provided as part of the call to the invoked routine;   transmitting the parameter from the target device to the host device; and   modifying the parameter based upon a characteristic of the host device and the target device.