Validating Multiple Variants of an Automotive Light System with Electrum

Alcino Cunha, Nuno Macedo, Chong Liu
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Conference paper
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7th International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods (ABZ'20)

Abstract

This paper reports on the development and validation of a formal model for an automotive adaptive exterior lights system (ELS) with multiple variants in Electrum, a lightweight formal specification language that extends Alloy with mutable relations and temporal logic. We explore different strategies to address variability, one in pure Electrum and another through an annotative language extension. We then show how Electrum and its Analyzer can be used to validate systems of this nature, namely by checking that the reference scenarios are admissible, and to automatically verify whether the established requirements hold. A prototype was developed to translate the provided validation sequences into Electrum and back to further automate the validation process. The resulting ELS model was validated against the provided validation sequences and verified for most of requirements for all variants.

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% BibTex
@inproceedings{cunha22020abz,
  title={{Validating Multiple Variants of an Automotive Light System with Electrum}},
  author={Cunha, Alcino and Macedo, Nuno and Liu, Chong},
  booktitle={7th International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods (ABZ'20)},
  pages={318--334},
  year={2020},
  organization={Springer}
}

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  • Used formal method: Electrum

  • Resources and tools: Electrum

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ABZ'20

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