Testing Safety Properties of Cyber-Physical Systems with Non-Intrusive Fault Injection – An Industrial Case Study

Non-intrusive, deterministic fault-injection tests provide evidence for making reliable statements about the behavior of safety-critical, real-time systems in the presence of software faults and component failures. These tests are derived from system safety requirements for the detection and handling of value and time errors. That the approach presented here works for distributed, time-triggered systems that process data cyclically and reserve resources exclusively for testing purposes has been demonstrated by an industry study confirming the feasibility of the concepts for a fail-operational electric car.