ISSTA 2025
Wed 25 - Sat 28 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
co-located with FSE 2025
Wed 25 Jun 2025 14:00 - 14:25 at Aurora B - Autonomous Systems Chair(s): Shin Yoo

Testing Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial for ensuring their safety, reliability, and performance. Despite numerous testing methods available that can generate diverse and challenging scenarios to uncover potential vulnerabilities, these methods often treat ADS as a black-box, primarily focusing on identifying system failures like collisions or near-misses without pinpointing the specific modules responsible for these failures. Understanding the root causes of failures is essential for effective debugging and subsequent system repair. We observed that existing methods also fall short in generating diverse failures that adequately test the distinct modules of an ADS, such as perception, prediction, planning and control.

To bridge this gap, we introduce MoDitector, the first root-cause-aware testing method for ADS. Unlike previous approaches, MoDitector not only generates scenarios leading to collisions but also showing which specific module triggered the failure. This method targets specific modules, creating test scenarios that highlight the weaknesses of these given modules. Specifically, our approach involves designing module-specific oracles to ascertain module failures and employs a module-directed testing strategy that includes module-specific feedback, adaptive seed selection, and mutation. This strategy guides the generation of tests that effectively provoke module-specific failures. We evaluated MoDitector across four critical ADS modules and four testing scenarios. The results demonstrate that our method can effectively and efficiently generate scenarios where errors in targeted modules are responsible for ADS failures. It generates 216.7 expected scenarios in total, while the best-performing baseline detects only 79.0 scenarios. Our approach represents a significant innovation in ADS testing by focusing on identifying and rectifying module-specific errors within the system, moving beyond conventional black-box failure detection.

Wed 25 Jun

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14:00 - 15:15
Autonomous SystemsResearch Papers at Aurora B
Chair(s): Shin Yoo KAIST
14:00
25m
Talk
MoDitector: Module-Directed Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems
Research Papers
Renzhi Wang University of Alberta, Mingfei Cheng Singapore Management University, Xiaofei Xie Singapore Management University, Yuan Zhou Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Lei Ma The University of Tokyo & University of Alberta
DOI
14:25
25m
Talk
RouthSearch: Inferring PID Parameter Specification for Flight Control Program by Coordinate Search
Research Papers
Siao Wang Fudan University, Zhen Dong Fudan University, Hui Li Fudan University, China, Liwei Shen Fudan University, China, Xin Peng Fudan University, Dongdong She HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
DOI
14:50
25m
Talk
Testing the Fault-Tolerance of Multi-Sensor Fusion Perception in Autonomous Driving Systems
Research Papers
Haoxiang Tian Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, wenqiang ding Nanjing Institute of Software, Nanjing, China, Xingshuo Han Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Guoquan Wu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing College; China Southern Power Grid, An Guo Nanjing University, Junqi Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, China, Wei Chen Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jun Wei Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianwei Zhang Nanyang Technological University
DOI

Information for Participants
Wed 25 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:15 at Aurora B - Autonomous Systems Chair(s): Shin Yoo
Info for room Aurora B:

Aurora B is the second room in the Aurora wing.

When facing the main Cosmos Hall, access to the Aurora wing is on the right, close to the side entrance of the hotel.

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