Perceptions on the state of the art in verification and validation in cyber-physical systems

X Zheng, C Julien, M Kim, S Khurshid - IEEE Systems Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is widely held that debugging cyber-physical systems (CPS) is challenging; many strongly
held beliefs exist regarding how CPS are currently debugged and tested and the suitability …

Mutation testing advances: an analysis and survey

M Papadakis, M Kintis, J Zhang, Y Jia, Y Le Traon… - Advances in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mutation testing realizes the idea of using artificial defects to support testing activities.
Mutation is typically used as a way to evaluate the adequacy of test suites, to guide the …

Random key predistribution schemes for sensor networks

H Chan, A Perrig, D Song - 2003 Symposium on Security and …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Key establishment in sensor networks is a challenging problem because asymmetric key
cryptosystems are unsuitable for use in resource constrained sensor nodes, and also …

Testing autonomous cars for feature interaction failures using many-objective search

RB Abdessalem, A Panichella, S Nejati… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Complex systems such as autonomous cars are typically built as a composition of features
that are independent units of functionality. Features tend to interact and impact one another's …

Approximation-refinement testing of compute-intensive cyber-physical models: An approach based on system identification

C Menghi, S Nejati, L Briand, YI Parache - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Black-box testing has been extensively applied to test models of Cyber-Physical systems
(CPS) since these models are not often amenable to static and symbolic testing and …

[HTML][HTML] On the relationship between similar requirements and similar software: A case study in the railway domain

M Abbas, A Ferrari, A Shatnawi, E Enoiu… - Requirements …, 2023 - Springer
Recommender systems for requirements are typically built on the assumption that similar
requirements can be used as proxies to retrieve similar software. When a stakeholder …

Test generation and test prioritization for simulink models with dynamic behavior

R Matinnejad, S Nejati, LC Briand… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
All engineering disciplines are founded and rely on models, although they may differ on
purposes and usages of modeling. Among the different disciplines, the engineering of Cyber …

Search-based test case prioritization for simulation-based testing of cyber-physical system product lines

A Arrieta, S Wang, G Sagardui, L Etxeberria - Journal of Systems and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) integrate computation with physical processes.
These systems are usually highly configurable to address different customer needs and are …

Control strategies for self-adaptive software systems

A Filieri, M Maggio, K Angelopoulos… - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The pervasiveness and growing complexity of software systems are challenging software
engineering to design systems that can adapt their behavior to withstand unpredictable …

Generating automated and online test oracles for simulink models with continuous and uncertain behaviors

C Menghi, S Nejati, K Gaaloul, LC Briand - … of the 2019 27th acm joint …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Test automation requires automated oracles to assess test outputs. For cyber physical
systems (CPS), oracles, in addition to be automated, should ensure some key objectives:(i) …