Strobilus - Test Application Generator for AUTOSAR systems

Abstract

Automatic test generation is a way to ensure that trivial problems and errors can be found without manual work. Automatic tests are a great complement to manual testing and one strong advantage is that tests can be run on every product release without much effort. The goal of this thesis was to develop a framework for automatic test generation for AUTOSAR systems, called Strobilus. Strobilus features support for reading and modifying AUTOSAR configuration files and generation of script and SWC code through an intermediate language. Strobilus was built using Java with XML-libraries. It is primarily intended to be a complement to the tool Picea Workbench, testing Picea Workbench’s output of configuration files, but it can also be used as a stand-alone product. The scope of Strobilus covers support for AUTOSAR version 3.1, code generation for C and script generation for CANoe. The design is very modular making it easy to add additional AUTOSAR versions, test modules or output formats. In its current state, Strobilus is capable of testing signals connecting to CAN. The generated test evaluates the correctness of signal paths, signal timing and verifies that packets are transmitted properly with the correct contents. More tests do however need to be implemented for the Strobilus framework to reach its full potential.