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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Fri 19 May 2023 16:00 - 16:15 at Meeting Room 106 - Cyber-physical systems testing Chair(s): Shahar Maoz

Industrial control systems (ICSs) are types of cyber-physical systems in which programs, written in languages such as ladder logic or structured text, control industrial processes through sensing and actuating. Given the use of ICSs in critical infrastructure, it is important to test their resilience against manipulations of sensor/actuator inputs. Unfortunately, existing methods fail to test them comprehensively, as they typically focus on finding the simplest-to-craft manipulations for a testing goal, and are also unable to determine when a test is simply a minor permutation of another, i.e. based on the same causal events. In this work, we propose a guided fuzzing approach for finding ‘meaningfully different’ tests for an ICS via a general formalisation of sensor/actuator-manipulation strategies. Our algorithm identifies the causal events in a test, generalises them to an equivalence class, and then updates the fuzzing strategy so as to find new tests that are causally different from those already identified. An evaluation of our approach on a real-world water treatment system shows that it is able to find 106% more causally different tests than the most comparable fuzzer. While we focus on diversifying the test suite of an ICS, our formalisation may be useful for other fuzzers that intercept communication channels.

Fri 19 May

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15:45 - 17:15
Cyber-physical systems testingSEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / Technical Track / Journal-First Papers at Meeting Room 106
Chair(s): Shahar Maoz Tel Aviv University
15:45
15m
Talk
Data-driven Mutation Analysis for Cyber-Physical Systems
Journal-First Papers
Enrico Viganò University of Luxembourg, Oscar Cornejo SnT Centre, University of Luxembourg, Fabrizio Pastore University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg; University of Ottawa
Link to publication Pre-print
16:00
15m
Talk
Finding Causally Different Tests for an Industrial Control System
Technical Track
Chris Poskitt Singapore Management University, Yuqi Chen ShanghaiTech University, China, Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Yu Jiang Tsinghua University
DOI Pre-print File Attached
16:15
15m
Talk
Doppelganger Test Generation for Revealing Bugs in Autonomous Driving Software
Technical Track
Yuqi Huai University of California, Irvine, Yuntianyi Chen University of California, Irvine, Sumaya Almanee University of California, Irvine, Tuan Ngo VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Xiang Liao University of California, Irvine, Ziwen Wan University of California, Irvine, Qi Alfred Chen University of California, Irvine, Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine
Pre-print
16:30
15m
Talk
Generating Realistic and Diverse Tests for LiDAR-Based Perception Systems
Technical Track
Garrett Christian University of Virginia, Trey Woodlief University of Virginia, Sebastian Elbaum University of Virginia
Pre-print
16:45
15m
Talk
Automated Test Case Generation for Safety-Critical Software in Scade
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Elson Kurian University of Milano Bicocca, Pietro Braione University of Milano-Bicocca, Daniela Briola University of Milano Bicocca, Dario D'Avino , Matteo Modonato , Giovanni Denaro University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
17:00
7m
Talk
Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments
Journal-First Papers
Christian Birchler Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Sajad Khatiri USI-Lugnao & Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Pouria Derakhshanfar JetBrains Research, Sebastiano Panichella Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
17:07
7m
Talk
Parameter Coverage for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems Under Uncertainty
Journal-First Papers
Thomas Laurent JSPS@National Institute of Informatics, Japan, Stefan Klikovits Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics , Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Anthony Ventresque Trinity College Dublin & Lero, Ireland
Link to publication DOI