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Given the safety-critical functions of autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) across diverse domains, testing these systems is essential. While conventional software and hardware testing methodologies offer partial insights, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Sanaz Sheikhi , Stanley Bak

Open-source software for cyber-physical systems (CPS) often lacks robust testing involving robotic platforms, resulting in critical errors that remain undetected. This is especially challenging when multiple modules of CPS software are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Aditya A. Krishnan , Donghoon Kim , Hokeun Kim

In this work, we address the problem of formal safety verification for stochastic cyber-physical systems (CPS) equipped with ReLU neural network (NN) controllers. Our goal is to find the set of initial states from where, with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Shiqi Sun , Yan Zhang , Xusheng Luo , Panagiotis Vlantis , Miroslav Pajic , Michael M. Zavlanos

Testing Deep Learning (DL) based systems inherently requires large and representative test sets to evaluate whether DL systems generalise beyond their training datasets. Diverse Test Input Generators (TIGs) have been proposed to produce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Vincenzo Riccio , Paolo Tonella

Internet of Things (IoT) security research continues to face a methodological gap between scalable virtual experimentation and realistic device behaviour. While pure simulation and emulation platforms provide control, repeatability, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yan Lin Aung , Nelson Che Neba

The integration of machine learning (ML) into cyber-physical systems (CPS) offers significant benefits, including enhanced efficiency, predictive capabilities, real-time responsiveness, and the enabling of autonomous operations. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xi Zheng , Aloysius K. Mok , Ruzica Piskac , Yong Jae Lee , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Dakai Zhu , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

In the paper Controlling Garbage Collection and Request Admission to Improve Performance of FaaS Applications, we verified and evaluated the impact of memory management mechanics of programming languages in the context of Functions as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-30 David Ferreira Quaresma , Thiago Emmanuel Pereira , Daniel Fireman

Flaky tests, which pass or fail inconsistently without code changes, are a major challenge in software engineering in general and in quantum software engineering in particular due to their complexity and probabilistic nature, leading to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Janakan Sivaloganathan , Ainaz Jamshidi , Andriy Miranskyy , Lei Zhang

Test instability in a floating-point program occurs when the control flow of the program diverges from its ideal execution assuming real arithmetic. This phenomenon is caused by the presence of round-off errors that affect the evaluation of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Laura Titolo , Mariano Moscato , Cesar A. Muñoz

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are vulnerable to attacks targeting outgoing actuation commands that modify their physical behaviors. The limited resources in such systems, coupled with their stringent timing constraints, often prevents the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Monowar Hasan , Sibin Mohan

Flaky tests are tests that pass and fail on different executions of the same version of a program under test. They waste valuable developer time by making developers investigate false alerts (flaky test failures). To deal with this problem,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Guillaume Haben , Sarra Habchi , Mike Papadakis , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), comprising both software and physical components, arise in many industry-relevant domains and are often mission- or safety-critical. System-Level Verification (SLV) of CPSs aims at certifying that given (e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Toni Mancini , Igor Melatti , Enrico Tronci

In system analysis, conformance indicates that two systems simultaneously satisfy the same set of specifications of interest; thus, the results from analyzing one system automatically transfer to the other, or one system can safely replace…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-03 Yu Wang , Mojtaba Zarei , Borzoo Bonakdarpoor , Miroslav Pajic

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) continuously interact with their physical environments through software controllers that observe the environments and determine actions. Engineers can verify to what extent the CPS under analysis can achieve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yong-Jun Shin , Donghwan Shin , Doo-Hwan Bae

Flaky tests, tests that pass or fail nondeterministically without changes to code or environment, pose a serious threat to software reliability. While classical software engineering has developed a rich body of dynamic and static techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchan Kim , Hamidreza Khoramrokh , Lei Zhang , Andriy Miranskyy

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as autonomous cars, aircraft, and robots are often also safety-critical; thus it is imperative that they operate as intended with a high degree of certainty. Formal verification has been employed to verify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Serra Z. Dane , Jiawei Chen , Marc Pouzet , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

Many scientific-software projects test their codes inadequately, or not at all. Despite its well-known benefits, adopting routine testing is often not easy. Development teams may have doubts about establishing effective test procedures,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Paul Madden , Eduardo G. Valente

This study compares state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) on their tendency to generate vulnerabilities when writing C programs using a neutral zero-shot prompt. Tihanyi et al. introduced the FormAI dataset at PROMISE'23, featuring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Norbert Tihanyi , Tamas Bisztray , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Ridhi Jain , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Cyber-physical systems (CPSes), such as autonomous vehicles, use sophisticated components like ML-based controllers. It is difficult to provide evidence about the safe functioning of such components. To overcome this problem, Runtime…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Vivek Nigam , Carolyn Talcott

Model-based approaches to the verification of non-terminating Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) usually rely on numerical simulation of the System Under Verification (SUV) model under input scenarios of possibly varying duration, chosen among…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Toni Mancini , Igor Melatti , Enrico Tronci