Analysis and testing of matlab simulink models: a systematic mapping study

Abstract

Matlab Simulink is one of the major modeling and simulation tools applied in different embedded systems domain. Quality assurance is an essential, but often highly effort-consuming part of software development. A lot of different quality assurance techniques exist to ensure high quality, but these analysis and testing techniques are often applied in isolation. Therefore, we are interested in synergy effects when applying them in combination. Consequently, we performed a systematic mapping study to identify the current state of the art regarding such quality assurance techniques and existing combinations. Our main result is a classification of existing quality assurance techniques applied on Matlab Simulink models, and an overview of existing tool support and the validity of the approaches.