Unreliable Test Infrastructures in Automotive Testing Setups

Claudius Jordan, Philipp Foth, Alexander Pretschner, Matthias Fruth

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Abstract

During system testing of automotive electrical control units various reasons can lead to invalid test failures, e.g., non-responding components, faulty simulation models, faulty test case implementations, or hardware or software misconfigurations. To determine whether a test failure is invalid and what the underlying cause was, the test executions have to be analyzed manually, which is tedious and therefore costly. In this work, we report the magnitude of the problem of invalid test failures with four system testing projects from the automotive domain. We find that up to 91% of failed test executions are considered invalid. An oftentimes overlooked challenge are unreliable test infrastructures which deteriorate the validity of the test runs. In the studied projects already between 27% and 53% of failed test executions are linked to unreliable test infrastructures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationSoftware Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2022
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages307-308
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781665495905
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2022 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: 22 May 202227 May 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period22/05/2227/05/22

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