Title
CPSDebug: Automatic failure explanation in CPS models
Abstract
Debugging cyber-physical system (CPS) models is a cumbersome and costly activity. CPS models combine continuous and discrete dynamics-a fault in a physical component manifests itself in a very different way than a fault in a state machine. Furthermore, faults can propagate both in time and space before they can be detected at the observable interface of the model. As a consequence, explaining the reason of an observed failure is challenging and often requires domain-specific knowledge. In this paper, we propose approach, a novel CPSDebug that combines testing, specification mining, and failure analysis, to automatically explain failures in Simulink/Stateflow models. In particular, we address the hybrid nature of CPS models by using different methods to infer properties from continuous and discrete state variables of the model. We evaluate CPSDebug on two case studies, involving two main scenarios and several classes of faults, demonstrating the potential value of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s10009-020-00599-4
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cyber-physical systems, Testing, Debugging, Model-based development, Property mining, Failure explanation
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1433-2779
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ezio Bartocci173357.55
Niveditha Manjunath2102.16
Leonardo Mariani323324.60
Cristinel Mateis410.70
Dejan Ničković5443.22