The modeling and validation techniques and supporting tools developed and disseminated within the cluster have relevance and potential impact on literally all industrial sectors developing or using embedded systems solutions. Within the Strategic Research Agenda of the ARTEMIS research platform Design Methods and Tools is one of the three research priorities put forward. Here model- and component-based approaches are proposed as necessary for coping with the growing complexity of systems while meeting “time-to-market” requirements. Methods and tools for testing and verification are to play a central role in the ARTEMIS research strategy, as can be seen from the following citations:

 

• “.. methods and tools for simulation, automatic validation and proving, and virtual Verification and Validation (V&V). Methods and tools for developing product lines of embedded systems.”

• “.. reduce the cost of the system design by 50%. Matured product family technologies will enable a much higher degree of strategic reuse of all artifacts, while component technology will permit predictable assembly of Embedded Systems.”

• “.. achieve 50% reduction in development cycles. Design excellence will aim to reach a goal of “right first time, every time” by 2016, including Validation, Verification and certification (to the same and higher standards as today).”

• “..manage a complexity increase of 100% with 20% effort reduction. The capability to manage uncertainty in the design process and to maintain independent hardware and software upgradeability all along the life cycle will be crucial.”

• “.. reduce by 50% the effort and time required for re-validation and recertification after change, so that they are linearly related to the changes in functionality.”

The industrial needs for improved tools and methods for system validation have also been witnessed by a number of industrial and industry inspired case-studies and projects using model-based testing and verification carried out by the individual partners. Detailed information of these (and others) is to be found in the ARTIST2 Open Repository for Test and Verification Case Studies (https://bugsy.grid.aau.dk/artist2). Based on the above case-studies, it seems that the actual financial benefits of using a model-driven approach are likely to be even greater than those of the ARTEMIS goals, due to the capabilities of capturing functional as well as non-functional problems early on in the development process.

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