Scenario-based Testing

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    Lukas Birkemeyer, Ina Schaefer

The dream of automated driving seems within reach and promises greater safety and comfort for road users. Nevertheless, the safeguarding of these automated systems prevents their market launch. State-of-the-art is the use of scenario-based testing according to the SOTIF standard (ISO 21448). However, this standard leaves two major challenges unresolved: concepts and processes for generating (1) and evaluating test scenarios (2). Our research addresses these same two open questions.

(1) We use a combinatorial approach to generate scenarios. Here, we understand a scenario as a configuration of a simulator and map the entire scenario space into a feature model. Using variability management techniques, we select a representative subset of scenarios from the entire scenario space.

(2) We adapt mutation testing to evaluate the generated scenarios. Mutation Testing is a method from computer science evaluates the quality of a test environment. Here, the so-called mutation score shows the ability of the test environment to find errors in the DUT. We use simulations to determine the mutation score for a scenario catalog and can thus evaluate the quality of this catalog.

The goal of our research is to develop generic methods that - measured by the mutation score - generate scenario catalogs with the highest possible quality and are thus suitable for validating automated driving functions and driver assistance systems.

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