Test Automation for Automotive Embedded Systems

Abstract

With an increasing software complexity, it becomes a huge challenge to guarantee quality and reliability in automotive systems. However, the extensive use of manual testing is time consuming, costly and error prone, which leads to lack of product quality. Also it has a limited coverage due to its countable combinations. Thus, test automation for automotive systems has started to play a more important role nowadays. The main objective of this thesis work is to find out a automatic test framework for automotive systems, including information retrieval, test activity execution, result analysis and making decisions for next test phase. Interfaces that connect the above parts in the framework are built up to have communications and data exchange between isolated software systems. We show that this automated testing framework can realize different kinds of test case combinations and functionalities with dummy test cases.