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Variability Management in Testing Architectures for Embedded Control Systems

Authors:
Goiuria Sagardui
Leire Etxeberria
Joseba A. Agirre

Keywords: testing architecture; variability management; simulation

Abstract:
In recent years, embedded systems have substantially increased their presence both in industry and in our everyday lives. Hence, more and more effort is being dedicated to the development of such systems. Since embedded systems involve computation that is subject to physical constraints, the development and validation of software for such systems becomes a challenge. Moreover, the validation of the embedded system within the environment increases the complexity and cost of testing, so many efforts are being devoted to perform testing activities from early phases of the development. Testing by simulation of the system and its environment is one of the most promising approaches to reduce testing costs. In this paper, we present a proposal based on model based testing and variability management and integrated in Simulink for ensuring the correctness of a embedded control software. Variability management of configurations helps managing different simulation environments and allows less costly and time-consuming testing.

Pages: 73 to 78

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4316

ISBN: 978-1-61208-233-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012