Experiences with a CANoe-based fault injection framework for AUTOSAR

Standardized software architectures, such as AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture (AUTOSAR), are being pursued within the automotive industry in order to reduce the cost of developing new vehicle features. Many of these features will need to be highly dependable. Fault injection plays an important role during the dependability analysis of such software. This work evaluates the feasibility of leveraging the CANoe simulation environment to develop software-based methods for injecting faults into AUTOSAR applications. We describe a proof-of-concept fault-injection framework with example fault-injection scenarios, as well as implementation issues faced and addressed, lessons learned, and the suitability of using CANoe as a fault-injection environment.

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