• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.29-38
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• 2010

It is highly requested that the more complicated embedded software is used for high performance and multiple functions of the systems. This is inevitably increasing the errors. Therefore the embedded software testing is getting important recently. There are not general testing methods which are able to be applied for any embedded systems, but via this research, we introduce a testing method which is based on TTCN-3, a testing standard, for embedded systems. A testing environment for network-based embedded software is implemented with considering the features of TTCN-3 testing which is based on message exchange. The testing environment has two additional parts with TTCN-3 test system, the network analyzer to access the network-based systems and the communication interface which is suggested for embedded systems in previous work, and we have implemented the whole testing environment with interacting these two parts. In addition to the normal testing domain, called single node testing as a unit testing of V-model, we suggest another concept to test multiple nodes in network. It could be achieved by adding keywords such as supervisor and object which are describing the feature of TTCN-3 testing component and generating the TTCN-3 Executable code which contains new keywords. The testing has done for embedded software which is based on CAN network and the demonstration of the testing environment has been shown in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.611-614
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• 2004

As information telecommunication industry develops and systems get integrated gradually, the importance of embedded software is growing significantly. On the contrary, the reliability of embedded software has worsened. Accordingly, testing of software is an essential part in designing and building up embedded system and the volume of testing required is immense. This paper elaborates on design and testing model for complex embedded software, providing guidelines to collect requirements for complex embedded software.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06b
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• pp.414-418
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• 2010

많은 분야에서 사용되는 matlab을 이용한 test방식을 좀 더 유연하고 원하는 기능을 만들어 사용하기 위해 matlab의 데이터 저장 파일인 mdl 파일의 내부 구조를 분석하고 구문 분석기로 파싱하여 실행 가능한 그래프를 나타내는 자료구조를 만든다.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.137-148
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• 2007

Rapid increase of embedded systems in electronic and mechanical control systems requires reliable and error-free embedded software. State-based testing methods like FSM are usually used to assure the reliability of embedded software. However, because of possibility of explosion of test cases, only partial test cases are considered in practical tests, which cannot guarantee that all the possible errors are investigated. This study proposes a test procedure based on failure mechanisms that may occur in embedded systems, which can not only assure that certain kinds of possible errors are detected but reduce the testing time. The proposed procedure is applied to vehicle air control system.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.307-314
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• 2014

Recently, software reliability and safety issues are seriously considered since failures of embedded systems may cause the damages of human lifes. For verifying and testing embedded software, execution environment including sensors and actuators should be prepared in the actual plants or virtual forms on PC. In this paper, we provide the virtual prototype based code simulation techniques and testing framework on PC. Virtual prototypes are generated by combining the Adobe's Flash SWF images corresponding to the state machine of HW or environment components. Code simulation on PC is possible by replacing the device drivers into virtual drivers which connect to virtual prototypes. Also, testing is performed by controlling the states of virtual prototype and simulators. By using these tools, embedded software can be executed in the earlier development phase and the efficiency and SW quality can be enhanced.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.229-234
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• 2020

This paper presents the design and the implementation of CRESTIVE-DX, a concolic testing tool that distribute the concolic testing process over the embedded target system and the host system for efficient test generation of a target embedded program. CRESTIVE-DX conducts the execution of a target program on the target embedded system to consider possible machine-dependent behaviors of a target program execution, and conducts machine-independent parts, such as search-strategy heuristics, constraint solving, on host systems with high-speed computation unit, and coordinates their concurrent executions. CRESTIVE-DX is implemented by extending an existing concolic testing tool for C programs CREST. We conducted experiments with a test bed that consists of an embedded target system in the Arm Cortex A54 architecture and host systems in the x86-64 architecture. The results of experiments with Unix utility programs Grep, Busybox Awk, and Busybox Ed show that test input generation of CRESTIVE-DX is 1.59 to 2.64 times faster than that of CREST.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.1179-1185
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• 2007

This paper presents a new approach to automotive embedded systems development and validation. Recently automotive embedded systems become even more complex and the product life cycle is getting reduced. To overcome these problems AUTOSAR, a standardized software platform and component based approach, was introduced. Model-based approach has been widely applied in the development of embedded systems and has strong benefits such as early validation and automated testing. In this paper cooperative development and validation of AUTOSAR and model-based approach are introduced and automated testing techniques are proposed. With the proposed techniques we can improve complexity management through increased reuse and exchangeability of software module and automated testing is realized.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.15D no.6
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• pp.785-792
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• 2008

In spite of the various techniques on the testing of embedded software, operation failures of embedded systems such as robot or satellite applications, are occurred frequently. The critical reason of these failures is due to the fact that software is embedded into a target system with inherent faults. Therefore, in order to prevent the failure owing to such faults, it needs a technique to test the embedded software which operates in real environment. In this paper, we propose a testing technique, aspect-based On-the-Fly testing that is to test the functionality and performance at real operation time. Our proposed technique gives some benefits of real test of unexpected input conditions, prevention of software malfunction, and reusability of aspect components for the testing.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.547-558
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• 2008

Embedded system is tightly coupled with heterogeneous layers such as application, as kernel, device driver, HAL and hardware. Embedded system is customized for the specific purpose and hardware. In addition, the product cycle is so fast that software and hardware, which are developed by several vendors, are integrated together under unstable status. Therefore, there are lots of possibilities of faults in all layers. Because embedded software developers test their codes integrated with faulty layers, they cannot confirm 'whether testing of every aspects was completed, their code was failed, or integrated software/hardware has some problems'. In this paper, we propose an embedded software interface test method and a test tool called Justitia for detecting faults and tracing causes in the interface among heterogeneous layers. The proposed technique is an automated method which improves debugging upto professional testing using an emulator for helping developer.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2009

According to increasing requirments in embedded systems, embedded software has been more complicated then before, a software developer is required to test her/his software to make a efficient embedded system software in both time and space. This paper suggests a testing tool with which a software developer can easily test the embedded system software in cross-development environments. The suggested tool is designed based on host/target architecture, to provide an intuitive test environment in which a test case can be executed in a target board. The tool uses an XML-based test script to generate an appropriate test case. It includes a tree-based test script editor with which a developer can easily make a test case. Therefore, with the suggested tool, a develop can put down a burden on an software testing and get more productivity in software development related on embedded system.