Blog: UCL Researchers Develop 'Darwinian' Software to Test Car Computers

UCL Researchers Develop 'Darwinian' Software to Test Car Computers
Science Business (06/30/11)

Researchers from University College London's Center for Research on Evolution, Search, and Testing are collaborating with a team from Berner & Mattner on improving search-based testing techniques. The researchers are using Darwinian evolution to breed scenarios for testing automotive software. The car-testing scenarios then will compete with each other in a virtual world. The idea is to breed the strongest and most demanding testing scenarios for the task of reading through the up to 10 million lines of software code that modern cars now contain to make sure everything in the vehicles work correctly. "Search-based testing techniques have the potential to fully automate testing of embedded systems," says Berner & Mattner's Joachim Wegener. "This will allow significant cost savings and increased product quality." Further development of the evolutionary testing techniques would enable its use in industrial practice.

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