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Verification of functional requirements of critical control systems requires a hard testing activity regulated by international standards. As testing often forms more than fifty percent of the total development cost, to support the verification processes by automated solutions is a key factor for achieving lower effort and costs and reducing time to market. The ultimate goal of the ongoing work here described is the development of an interoperable testing environment supporting the system level testing of railway ERTMS/ETCS control systems. The testing environment will provide a standardized interface to enable the integration testing between sub-systems developed by different companies/suppliers. We present the first outcomes obtained within the ARTEMIS project CRYSTAL which tackles the challenge to establish and push forward an Interoperability Specification (IOS) as an open European standard for the development of safety-critical embedded systems.
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Barberio, G. et al. (2014). An Interoperable Testing Environment for ERTMS/ETCS Control Systems. In: Bondavalli, A., Ceccarelli, A., Ortmeier, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8696. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10557-4_18
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