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This paper gives an overview of SCR3 -- a toolset designed to increase the usability of formal methods for software development. Formal requirements are specified in SCR3 in an easy to use and review format, and then used in checking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Chechik

Context: When an application evolves, some of the developed test cases break. Discarding broken test cases causes a significant waste of effort and leads to test suites that are less effective and have lower coverage. Test repair approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Javaria Imtiaz , Salman Sherin , Muhammad Uzair khan , Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal

Context: The complexity of modern safety-critical systems in industries keep on increasing due to the rising number of features and functionalities. This calls for formal methods in order to entrust confidence in such systems. Nevertheless,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Arut Prakash Kaleeswaran , Arne Nordmann , Thomas Vogel , Lars Grunske

Synthesizing controllers that enforce both safety and actuator constraints is a central challenge in the design of cyber-physical systems. State-of-the-art reachability methods based on zonotopes deliver impressive scalability, yet no…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jonathan Hellwig , Lukas Schäfer , Long Qian , André Platzer , Matthias Althoff

Agile software development is becoming increasingly popular in the aerospace industry because of its capability to accommodate requirement changes. However, safety-critical domains require compliance with strict regulations such as the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-07 J. Eduardo Ferreira Ribeiro , Mário Zenha-Rela , João Gabriel Silva

Evaluating conditional coverage remains one of the most persistent challenges in assessing the reliability of predictive systems. Although conformal methods can give guarantees on marginal coverage, no method can guarantee to produce sets…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-15 Sacha Braun , David Holzmüller , Michael I. Jordan , Francis Bach

Verified controller synthesis uses world models that comprise all potential behaviours of humans, robots, further equipment, and the controller to be synthesised. A world model enables quantitative risk assessment, for example, by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mario Gleirscher , Jan Peleska

The ability to solve motion-planning queries within a fixed time budget is critical for deploying robotic systems in time-sensitive applications. Semi-static environments, where most of the workspace remains fixed while a subset of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Niranjan Kumar Ilampooranan , Constantinos Chamzas

Software needs to be secure, in particular, when deployed to critical infrastructures. Secure coding guidelines capture practices in industrial software engineering to ensure the security of code. This study aims to assess the level of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner , Maria Pinto-Albuquerque , Daniel Mendez Fernandez

Simulation-based virtual testing has become an essential step to ensure the safety of autonomous driving systems. Testers need to handcraft the virtual driving scenes and configure various environmental settings like surrounding traffic,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Zhisheng Hu , Shengjian Guo , Zhenyu Zhong , Kang Li

Algorithmic verification of realistic systems to satisfy safety and other temporal requirements has suffered from poor scalability of the employed formal approaches. To design systems with rigorous guarantees, many approaches still rely on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Oliver Schön , Zhengang Zhong , Sadegh Soudjani

Autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) can improve safety and efficiency for safety-critical applications, but require rigorous testing before deployment. The complexity of these systems often precludes the use of formal verification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Anthony Corso , Robert J. Moss , Mark Koren , Ritchie Lee , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Modern society is increasingly surrounded by, and accustomed to, a wide range of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), and smart devices. They often perform safety-critical functions, e.g., personal medical devices,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Karim Eldefrawy , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Gene Tsudik

Conformal prediction provides prediction sets with finite-sample marginal coverage, but many applications require coverage guarantees that adapt to individual test points, a subpopulation, or a structural component of the data. Existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-27 Yinjie Min , Liuhua Peng , Changliang Zou

Software testing has progressed toward intelligent automation, yet current AI-based test generators still suffer from static, single-shot outputs that frequently produce invalid, redundant, or non-executable tests due to the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Saba Naqvi , Mohammad Baqar , Nawaz Ali Mohammad

AI Code Completion (e.g., GitHub's Copilot) has revolutionized how computer science students interact with programming languages. However, AI code completion has been studied from the developers' perspectives, not the students' perspectives…

Reference models convey best practices and standards. The reference frameworks necessitate conformance checks to ensure adherence to established guidelines and principles, which is crucial for maintaining quality and consistency in various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bernhard Rumpe , Max Stachon , Sebastian Stüber , Valdes Voufo

Code protections aim at blocking (or at least delaying) reverse engineering and tampering attacks to critical assets within programs. Knowing the way hackers understand protected code and perform attacks is important to achieve a stronger…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Mariano Ceccato , Paolo Tonella , Cataldo Basile , Bart Coppens , Bjorn De Sutter , Paolo Falcarin , Marco Torchiano

Accessibility is crucial for inclusive app usability, yet developers often struggle to identify and fix app accessibility issues due to a lack of awareness, expertise, and inadequate tools. Current accessibility testing tools can identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Forough Mehralian , Titus Barik , Jeff Nichols , Amanda Swearngin

As software development practices increasingly adopt AI-powered tools, ensuring that such tools can support secure coding has become critical. This study evaluates the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot's recently introduced code review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Amena Amro , Manar H. Alalfi