New article on requirements modelling, model-based testing and traceability

Our article on combining requirements modelling, test-case generation and traceability appeared in the Springer STTT journal.

The paper describes how we

1. model requirements as contracts in the form of assume-guarantee conditions 
2. generate test cases efficiently out of the models via SMT solving and an incremental algorithm
3. add traceability information linking requirements, contracts, generated test-cases and test results
4. demonstrated its feasibility with our industrial partner Infineon on airbag electronics.  

All of this comes with solid foundations and precise semantics.

Bernhard K. Aichernig, Klaus Hörmaier, Florian Lorber, Dejan Nickovic, and Stefan Tiran. Require, test, and trace IT. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), 19:409–426, 2017. Open Access. Published online: 29 November 2016. (PDF) (doi:10.1007/s10009-016-0444-z)

It is open access and can be freely accessed at Springer.

Enjoy!

Professional Activities in 2017

Here is a summary of my activities in 2017. This list will be updated as tasks come along.

• Key Researcher in the projects 
• Dependable Things, 
• TRUCONF.
• Invited Speaker at the 11th Alpine Verification Meeting (AVM 2017),  Visegrad, Hungary, 18 - 21 Sep 2017.
• Member of the appointment committee for the professorship in Information Security. 
• External PhD examiner of Zhengkui Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark. Thesis title: "Time and Cost Optimisation of Cyber-Physical Systems by Distributed Reachability Analysis". 
• PC Member of 
• A-MOST 2017, 13th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing
• TAP 2017, 11th International Conference on Tests & Proofs
• TASE 2017, 11th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering
• MBT 2017, 11th Int. Workshop on Model-Based Testing
• ICFEM 2017, 19th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods
• ICTAC 2017, 14th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
• Guest Editor of the Springer Journal Formal Aspects of Computing for a special issue of TAP 2016. 
• Associate Editor of the open access journal Frontiers in ICT, section Formal Methods.
• Teaching 
• Quality Assurance in Software Development, 
• Software Paradigms, 
• Model-based Testing, 
• Logic and Logic Programming, and 
• Functional Programming.