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A Systematic Approach to Testing Automotive Control Software
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2004-21-0039
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Usually, the testing of today’s ECU software follows a gut feeling approach, leading to test gaps and test redundancies. This paper presents a new, more systematic way of testing automotive control software. The central element of the approach is the Classification-Tree Method for Embedded Systems (CTM/ES). Using an interface description, which can be based on the specification and/or an executable model of the software, test scenarios can be derived systematically and described in a graphical way so as to provide the user with visual information about test coverage. The CTM/ES can be integrated into an overall test strategy for automotive control software developed in a model-based way. The approach opens up a new way of assuring quality for embedded control software which is especially designed for automotive software developers.
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Conrad, M., "A Systematic Approach to Testing Automotive Control Software," SAE Technical Paper 2004-21-0039, 2004.Also In
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