With advancements in technology and increasing customer demands, automotive ECUs have become incredibly complex, to a point where a fairly advanced vehicle can have more than a thousand features, provided by a hundred ECUs.

This complexity has necessitated OEMs to rethink their vehicle testing strategy. Python and Robot Framework are now playing an increasingly dominant role in a realm that was dominated by proprietary software tools. In this article, we will discuss how Python and Robot Framework can be used in automotive testing, using an OBD-II Heads-up Display, as an example.