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Event-driven systems are ubiquitous – in technical as well as non-technical domains. Often these systems are safety-critical, and static analysis methods are applied in order to reduce risks and increase quality. The Abstract Execution analysis method provides valuable results for imperative programs, which are used for WCET analysis. In this paper, an enhancement for Abstract Execution is presented, which allows handling the concurrent program flow of event-driven systems. An abstract event queue is defined which is able to represent multiple concrete event queues. This queue handling is embedded into the Abstract Execution engine without further changes to the original algorithm. A elaborated real-world example will be shown, which applies the new analysis method to the model-based development of on-board diagnostics software in the Automotive/Infotainment domain.
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Birken, K. (2012). Abstract Execution for Event-Driven Systems – An Application from Automotive/Infotainment Development. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Applications and Case Studies. ISoLA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7610. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34032-1_18
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