ICST 2023
Sun 16 - Thu 20 April 2023 Dublin, Ireland
Thu 20 Apr 2023 11:30 - 12:00 at Hanover - Morning Session 2 Chair(s): Jan Tretmans

Autonomous systems are supposed to automatically plan their actions and execute the plan without human intervention. In this paper, we propose a model-based two-layer framework for policy synthesis and test-case generation for autonomous systems. At the high-level layer of the framework, we have two kinds of methods for synthesizing policies whose correctness is guaranteed by model checking. The autonomous system’s controller executes synthesised policies at the low-level layer. As the kinematics of autonomous systems is often nonlinear and the environment may influence the results of their actions, formally verifying the controllers is extremely difficult. We propose a novel method for generating test cases for the controllers at the low-level layer. The method employs reinforcement learning for test-case generation and model checking to ensure that the test cases faithfully realize the execution of the policy. The framework is designed in Uppaal Stratego, which integrates model checkers and algorithms for policy synthesis. Therefore, the framework separates concerns and seamlessly interchanges the information between two layers.

Thu 20 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Morning Session 2A-MOST at Hanover
Chair(s): Jan Tretmans Radboud University Nijmegen, TNO-ESI
11:00
30m
Talk
An Experiment in Requirements Engineering and Testing using EARS Notation for PLC Systems
A-MOST
Mikael Ebrahimi Salari Mälardalen University, Eduard Paul Enoiu Mälardalen University, Wasif Afzal Mälardalen University, Cristina Seceleanu Mälardalen University
11:30
30m
Talk
Model-Based Policy Synthesis and Test-Case Generation for Autonomous Systems
A-MOST
Rong Gu Mälardalen University, Eduard Paul Enoiu Mälardalen University
12:00
30m
Talk
We Tried and Failed: An Experience Report on a Collaborative Workflow for GUI-based Testing
A-MOST
Andreas Bauer Blekinge Institute of Technology, SERL Sweden, Emil Alégroth Blekinge Institute of Technology