Architectures in Simulink & Stateflow
How to Manage Large Software Models - 2 days
| Date | Location |
Language |
| Feb 9–10, 2021 |
Online |
English |
Models are the core artifacts in software development. Over time – within a single development project or even across multiple evolution steps – models grow as they capture more and more functionality. As a result, models become hard to maintain, barely understandable, and the risk of errors increases due to unexpected behavior. The technical debt of the model demands proper countermeasures. This training class addresses deficits caused by large Simulink & Stateflow models and shows ways to overcome their risks.
Target Audience
This training class is targeted at modelers, developers, testers, quality managers, project managers, and team leaders, whose focus is model-based development of embedded software based on MATLAB/Simulink for serial projects.
Highlights
- Basic concepts of software architectures
- Assessing architectural design principles in models
- Refactoring Simulink models
- Layered application architectures
- Representing architectures in models
★★★★★ Pawel Malysz, FCA US
"The seminars provide insight and ideas on how to approach handling large software projects in a systematic way with useful suggestions and quantitative metrics."
Languages
Available in English and German
Formats
Costs & Conditions
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Agenda
Day 1
Overview: Model-based development and quality assurance with Simulink
- Foundations of model-based developmentt
- Overview of development and quality assurance activitiest
- Characteristics of ISO 26262-compliant development
Analysis and evaluation of model structure
- Introduction to complexity metricst
- Calculating model complexityt
- Countermeasures to overly complex modelst
- Assessing coherence in modelst
- Software architecture and model structuret of the sample application
Software architecture
- Basics of software architecturest
- Expected properties of an ISO 26262-compliant software architecturet
- Principles of software unit design
Implementing software architectures in models
- Software architecture in modelst
- Principles for layered modelst
- Interface handling in models
Integrating models and distributed modeling
- Advantages of model referencing and librariest
- Defining distributed parameter files
Hands-on: Improving model structures
Day 2
Refactoring Simulink models and their structures
- Modeling styles facilitating refactoring
- Basic refactoring operations for Simulink
- Complex refactoring operations
Hands-on: Model refactoring
Refactoring Stateflow charts
- Challenges of Stateflow semantics
- A safe modeling style for Stateflow
- Sample refactoring rules
Hands-on: Refactoring participant models
Regression testing of models
- Test goals on different testing levels
- Safeguarding functional properties of model and code
- Regression testing and back-to-back testing, MiL – SiL – PiL
- Automatic test evaluation with test assessments
Process concerns regarding refactoring
- Roles and responsibilities of software architect, software developer, and test engineer
- Distinction between architecture design (top-down approach) and architecture improvement (bottom-up approach) of emerging architectures
- Refactoring in agile settings
- Refactoring legacy models