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Simulation-based software testing supports engineers in finding faults in Simulink models. It typically relies on search algorithms that iteratively generate test inputs used to exercise models in simulation to detect design errors. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Federico Formica , Tony Fan , Akshay Rajhans , Vera Pantelic , Mark Lawford , Claudio Menghi

Search-based software testing (SBST) of Simulink models helps find scenarios that demonstrate that the system can reach a state that violates one of its requirements. However, many SBST techniques for Simulink models rely on requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Federico Formica , Chris George , Shayda Rahmatyan , Vera Pantelic , Mark Lawford , Angelo Gargantini , Claudio Menghi

Automotive software development requires engineers to test their systems to detect violations of both functional and drivability requirements. Functional requirements define the functionality of the automotive software. Drivability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Federico Formica , Nicholas Petrunti , Lucas Bruck , Vera Pantelic , Mark Lawford , Claudio Menghi

Software failures can have catastrophic and costly consequences. Functional Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a standard technique used within Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) to identify software failures and assess their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Andrea Bombarda , Federico Conti , Marcello Minervini , Aurora Zanenga , Claudio Menghi

Automated test generators, such as search based software testing (SBST) techniques, replace the tedious and expensive task of manually writing test cases. SBST techniques are effective at generating tests with high code coverage. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Anjana Perera

Search-based Software Testing (SBST) can automatically generate test cases to search for requirements violations. Unlike manual test case development, it can generate a substantial number of test cases in a limited time. However, SBST does…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Federico Formica , Mark Lawford , Claudio Menghi

Matlab/Simulink is a development and simulation language that is widely used by the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) industry to model dynamical systems. There are two mainstream approaches to verify CPS Simulink models: model testing that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shiva Nejati , Khouloud Gaaloul , Claudio Menghi , Lionel C. Briand , Stephen Foster , David Wolfe

Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) has seen several success stories in academia and industry. The effectiveness of a search algorithm at solving a software engineering problem strongly depends on how such algorithm can navigate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Testing of synchronous reactive systems is challenging because long input sequences are often needed to drive them into a state at which a desired feature can be tested. This is particularly problematic in on-target testing, where a system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Peter Schrammel , Tom Melham , Daniel Kroening

Search-based software testing (SBST) typically relies on fitness functions to guide the search exploration toward software failures. There are two main techniques to define fitness functions: (a) automated fitness function computation from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Federico Formica , Tony Fan , Claudio Menghi

Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) is the application of optimization algorithms to problems in software testing. In previous work, we have implemented and evaluated Interactive Search-Based Software Testing (ISBST) tool prototypes, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Bogdan Marculescu , Robert Feldt , Richard Torkar , Simon Poulding

Search-based software testing (SBST) is now a mature area, with numerous techniques developed to tackle the challenging task of software testing. SBST techniques have shown promising results and have been successfully applied in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Neelofar Neelofar , Kate Smith-Miles , Mario Andres Munoz , Aldeida Aleti

Simulink is widely used in industrial design processes to model increasingly complex embedded control systems. Thus, their formal analysis is highly desirable. However, this comes with two major challenges: First, Simulink models often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Pauline Blohm , Felix Schulz , Lisa Willemsen , Anne Remke , Paula Herber

Model-based testing (MBT) is a method that supports the design and execution of test cases by models that specify the intended behaviors of a system under test. While systematic literature reviews on MBT in general exist, the state of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Waleed Abdeen , Xingru Chen , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

We present SwiftEmbed, a production-oriented serving system for static token embeddings that achieves 1.12\,ms p50 latency for single-text requests while maintaining a 60.6 MTEB average score across 8 representative tasks. Built around the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Edouard Lansiaux , Antoine Simonet , Eric Wiel

Estimating the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) of an application is an essential task in the context of developing real-time or safety-critical software, but it is also a complex and error-prone process. Conventional approaches require at…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Martin Becker , Ravindra Metta , R Venkatesh , Samarjt Chakraborty

Supervisory controllers control cyber-physical systems to ensure their correct and safe operation. Synthesis-based engineering (SBE) is an approach to largely automate their design and implementation. SBE combines model-based engineering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Dennis Hendriks , Michel Reniers , Wan Fokkink , Wytse Oortwijn

Debugging Cyber-Physical System (CPS) models can be extremely complex. Indeed, only the detection of a failure is insuffcient to know how to correct a faulty model. Faults can propagate in time and in space producing observable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ezio Bartocci , Niveditha Manjunath , Leonardo Mariani , Cristinel Mateis , Dejan Ničković

Synchronous systems provide a basic model of embedded systems and industrial systems are modeled as Simulink diagrams and/or Lustre programs. Although the test generation problem is critical in the development of safe systems, it often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Daisuke Ishii , Takashi Tomita , Kenji Onishi , Toshiaki Aoki

Search-based software testing (SBST) has been studied a lot in the literature, lately. Since, in theory, the performance of meta-heuristic search methods are highly dependent on their parameters, there is a need to study SBST tuning. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Shayan Zamani , Hadi Hemmati
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