01 / Case study
I gave the team control of its firmware tests, from launch to the next morning’s results.
Overview
BMW already ran automated tests across the organisation. The team needed a complementary system it could control with its own scenarios and firmware versions. I extended the runner, designed the nightly orchestrator and built Flashboard so the whole flow could be prepared, launched and understood in a browser.
Inside the project
Instead of finding, downloading, extracting and placing firmware files by hand, the user enters a readable reference. Flashboard resolves it, then shows the exact version before execution. The flow is shorter without taking control away.
The hardware was shared by teams during the day. At night, the orchestrator checks reservations and health, attempts recovery, then leaves a bench out when continuing would waste more tests.
The repetition matrix groups recurring error signatures. It does not diagnose the cause on its own, but it helps the team decide what to examine first.
“I could give him a loosely defined problem and count on him to come back with something well thought through, usually faster than I expected.”
Lewon Simonian · Technical Area Lead, BMW Group