Ph.D. student Aitor Arrieta was in Nice from 12th to 16th of October, at the sixth International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation (VALID). Together with Goiuria Sagardui and Leire Etxeberria, two papers were presented in the conference: a PhD forum paper and a work-in-progress paper.
The first paper, entitled «A model-based testing methodology for the systematic validation of highly configurable cyber-physical systems» proposes a novel methodology to efficiently test cyber-physical systems that can get configured into thousands or millions of configurations. This methodology would enable engineers to systematically test highly configurable systems, achieving a high test coverage while reducing the overall validation time.
The second paper, which is titled «A configurable test architecture for the validation of variability-intensive cyber-physical systems», describes a process that automatically generates a test architecture in Simulink taking into account the variability from a feature model. This architecture automatically gets configured for different cyber-physical product configurations. The proposed approach helps test engineers to reduce effort when building the test architecture. In addition, it enables testing specific cyber-physical systems’ configurations automatically.
The participation of Aitor in this conference has served to validate that his ongoing Ph.D. research project has interest in both, research as well as in industry. In addition, he had the chance of getting to know international researchers working in similar areas, for example, Thomas Bauer (Fraunhofer IESE), Hideo Tanida (Fujitsu), Phillip Helle (Airbus innovation group), Annamária Szenkovits (Babe-Bolyal University), etc. He also met national researchers working in the software engineering domain, such as Daniel Fernández-Lanvín (University of Oviedo), Beatriz Pérez (University of La Rioja), etc.
Figure 1: Researchers from the conference having a lunch break. From the left to the right, Phillip Helle, Thomas Bauer, Hideo Tanida, Aitor Arrieta and Daniel Fernández-Lanvin