Verification and Testing to Support Functional Safety Standards
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| Coordinator | Volvo Technology AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 747 840 |
| Project duration | May 2012 - April 2015 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The new standards for functional safety, such as ISO26262, will challenge companies that develop and produce safety related embedded systems. Verification of safety properties is today often performed ad-hoc and differently for hardware and software. The VeTeSS-project has, with the new ISO-standard as basis, devloped tools and methods for verification of robustness in safety related systems. VeTeSS has made the development process for safety related systems more effective and more efficient. And by that, it will also decrease the development cost for safety related producs.
Results and expected effects
The goal of the project has been to improve functional safety in European products by focusing on improving verification activities in safety related systems. The project has addressed the three main parts of the new standard for functional safety: system, hardware and software. For each part methods and tools have been developed that increase the quality in the verification process. Examples on methods that have been developed are fault injection techniques for being able to perform back-to back tests on model and software level in AUTOSAR systems.
Approach and implementation
The project has been working with the entire safety system lifecycle, as specified in the ISO26262 standard for functional safety of road vehicles, and has included different technology domains such as hardware, software and system engineering. The project work has been driven though a matrix of work packages for each of the main parts in a system in combination with technical streams that has shared information and synchronised work accross work packages.