An Automated Continuous Integration Multitest Platform for Automotive Systems

Abstract

Testing has always been a crucial part of application development. It involves different techniques for verifying and validating the features of the target systems. For a complicated and/or complex system, tests are preferred to be carried out in different stages of the development process and as early as possible to avoid extra costs due to the errors caught at later stages. With the increasing system complexity, the cost of testing is also increasing in terms of resources and time, which introduce further impact against development constraints such as time-to-market. On the other hand, more and more associated electronic components lead to an ever-increasing system complexity in high reliable applications such as automotive ones different from heterogeneous systems such as advanced driver assistance systems, sensor fusion systems, etc. In this article, we present a testing framework utilizing the continuous integration (CI) solution from software engineering, a commercial virtual platform, and a hardware field programmable gate array based verification platform focusing on the engine control unit to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method. The efficiency and viability of the CI method have been demonstrated on a real heterogeneous automotive system.