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Semiformal verification of temporal properties in automotive hardware dependent software

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Stephan ReitemeyerAuthors Info & Claims

DATE '09: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe

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Published: 20 April 2009 Publication History

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The verification of embedded software has become an important subject over the last years. This work presents a new semiformal verification approach called SofTPaDS. It combines assertion-based and symbolic simulation approaches for the verification of embedded software with hardware dependencies. SofTPaDS shows to be more efficient than the software model checkers in order to trace deep state spaces and improves the state coverage relative to a simulation-based verification tool. We have successfully applied our approach to an industrial automotive embedded software.

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DATE '09: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe

April 2009

1776 pages

ISBN:9783981080155

General Chairs:
Luca Benini
University of Bologna, IT
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Giovanni De Micheli
EPFL, CH
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Bashir Al-Hashimi
University of Southampton, UK
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Wolfgang Mueller
University of Paderborn, DE

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European Design and Automation Association

Leuven, Belgium

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Published: 20 April 2009

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DATE '09: Design, Automation and Test in Europe

April 20 - 24, 2009

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Choi YByun T(2017)Constraint-based test generation for automotive operating systemsSoftware and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)10.1007/s10270-014-0449-616:1(7-24)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2017
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Cordeiro Lde Lima Filho E(2016)SMT-Based Context-Bounded Model Checking for Embedded SystemsACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2934240.293424741:3(1-6)Online publication date: 24-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2934240.2934247
Behrend JLettnin DGrünhage ARuf JKropf TRosenstiel W(2015)Scalable and Optimized Hybrid Verification of Embedded SoftwareJournal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications10.1007/s10836-015-5518-431:2(151-166)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2015
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