1. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 1 Research at Siemens CT SE Dr. Andreas Ulrich Siemens AG, CT SE 1 ph.: +49 (89) 636 47018 andreas.ulrich@siemens.com

2. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 2 Siemens: 56,870 R&D Employees Worldwide, Thereof 25,000 Outside of Germany CT / E 026 a - 08.01

3. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 3 Overview: CT Department “Software & Engineering” Department “Software & Engineering” in the Corporate Technology Division (CT SE) About 220 employees Located in Munich and Erlangen 5 Competence Centers Development techniques for SW systems SW architectures Development processes Discrete optimization techniques Industrial services and solutions CT SE mission Support of Siemens’ divisions in their R&D activities  Consultancy in projects Information & Communication, Medical Solutions, Automation & Control, Transportation Systems, Power Transmission and Distribution, etc. Guarantee competitiveness of Siemens in the field of SW development for the future  Research

4. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 4 Overview: CT SE “Development Techniques” Groups of CT SE “Dev. Techniques” and their activities Requirement engineering and formal SW verification Performance engineering Testing and quality assurance New development techniques for smart devices Research in the “Testing and Quality Assurance” group Property validation of distributed and concurrent systems based on observed communication traces Non-intrusive trace generation for CORBA,.NET and embedded systems Analysis of traces to improve dependability and trustworthiness of systems Test architectures for distributed and concurrent systems Test automation solutions for.NET applications and Web services Test automation in the telecommunication domain Involvements in Siemens consultancy projects (examples) I&C: Test automation in system test of GSM Base Stations Med: Testing strategies for computer tomography devices

5. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 5 Research Project: Analysis of Comm. Traces Partner of the project “Pattern-based analysis of communication traces for distributed systems” (TRACY) Prof. Alexandre Petrenko Centre de Recherche Informatique (CRIM), Montréal, Canada Ongoing cooperation since 2000 Problem description Given An executed trace collected by monitoring a system under test A set of properties of interest Verify whether the system’s behavior represented by the trace exhibits the given properties (patterns)

6. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 6 Trace Analysis Approach Front-end tool to Telelogic ObjectGEODE Model reconstruction in SDL from an observed trace Template library of general properties Event-based and state-based properties Described in GOAL language (similar to SDL) Monitoring Tool OG Simulator GOAL Observer System Specification Pattern Specification User Interface Operator Front-End to OG Model checking results: 1- Pattern present or not 2- Scenarios Trace SDL Model distributed system of processes Event... Event

7. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 7 Potential Research Topics for DeSIRE (1) Improve current testing techniques to support dependability of complex real-time systems Special focus on integration testing Increasing complexity of systems pushes system testing to its limit Increasing usage of Components-Off-The-Shelf Definition of test stop criteria Support of an incremental development and test process Incremental development is general practice in industries Product line development New approaches must be able to deal with incomplete and changing requirements, design and test specifications

8. © Siemens AG, CT SE 1, Dr. A. Ulrich 09.09.2015 C O R P O R A T E T E C H N O L O G Y Research at Siemens CT SE Software & Engineering Development Techniques s 8 Potential Research Topics for DeSIRE (2) Passive testing Developing tracing technologies to capture the behavior of concurrent systems E.g. based on existing protocol analyzers Improve facilities to support the description of safety, reliability, security properties for practitioners Hiding complex formalisms to the user, e.g. temporal logic Active testing Design of test architectures that scale with the system’s complexity Decentralized test execution, synthesis of concurrent test cases, test case selection Techniques to replay recorded communication traces for the purpose of regression tests Avoid the re-occurrence of detected faults in future versions of the system