Engineering process for an online testing process of control software in production systems

Benjamin Kormann, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Reinhard Hametner, Alois Zoitl

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Abstract

An increasing number of functionality in today's machine and plant automation is being shifted from pure mechanics or electronics into software. Therefore the system behavior must be checked for compliance with the demanded software functionality by software tests. The precondition for test case execution is a start state, the system has to take in. In order to evaluate the testability of a system, it must be verified whether the test case triggering system state is reachable. We propose a transformation approach of the control software model and the corresponding environment model (physics) to timed automata for model checking to exploit the power of the query language Timed Computation Tree Logic for start state reachability analysis. The applicability is demonstrated on a laboratory plant.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2011
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE 16th Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2011 - Toulouse, France
Duration: 5 Sep 20119 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE 16th Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2011
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period5/09/119/09/11

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