Paper Info
Title
Automotive system testing by independent guarded assertions
Abstract
Testing is a key activity in industry to verify and validate products before they reach end customers. In hardware-in-the-loop system-level verification of automotive systems, testing is often performed using sequential execution of test scripts, each containing a mix of stimuli and assertions. In this paper, we propose and study an alternative approach for automated system-level testing automotive systems. In our approach, assertion-only test scripts and one (or several) stimuli-only script(s), execute concurrently on the test driver. By separating the stimuli from the assertions, with each assertion independently determining when the system under test shall be verified, we seek to achieve three things: 1) tests that better represent real-world handling of the product, 2) reduced test execution time, and 3) increased defect detection. In addition to describing our proposed approach in detail, we provide experimental results from an industrial case study evaluating the approach in an automotive system test environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICSTW.2015.7107474
Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
automobiles,mechanical engineering computing,mechanical testing,vehicle dynamics,assertion-only test scripts,automotive system testing,hardware-in-the-loop system-level verification,increased defect detection,independent guarded assertions,real-world product handling,reduced test execution time,stimuli-only script
Test harness,System under test,Software engineering,Test Management Approach,Assertion,Test script,Software performance testing,Engineering,Reliability engineering,Information and Computer Science,Keyword-driven testing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2159-4848
5
0.46
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Gustafsson181.89
Mats Skoglund250.46
Avenir Kobetski350.46
Daniel Sundmark450.46