Improved safety, efficiency as well as environmental-friendliness require software-based systems. To cope with complexity, avoid errors and optimize the product to different goals, rigorous system development is necessary.

This project addresses system modelling techniques and will deliver an automotive architecture description language, ADL. Focus is on achieving an adequate information structure for all engineering information involved in automotive software development.

The ADL will be based on the EAST ADL from the ITEA project EAST-EEA and aligned with the AUTOSAR initiative and the OMG (UML2 profiles and SysML). Moreover, the result will be delivered as an UML2 profile, thus enabling open usage and standardization of the results.

ATESST is a STREP funded by the European Commission.

The EC project ATESST is finalized this quarter and some of its results were presented in an open workshop. 

The workshop took place in Brussels on March 3rd at Volvos Office. The workshop included the following parts:
- Overview of the EAST-ADL2
- Application of EAST ADL2: UML2 Profile, AUTOSAR
- Specific support in the EAST-ADL2 for behavior and Environment modelling,
   Requirements and V&V; Error modeling; Timing, Functional safety
- Adoption of the EAST-ADL and the future
- Demonstrations of EAST-ADL2 modeling and tooling results
- Discussion with the audience of relevance of the results, challenges,
and suggestions for further work.

We wish to thank all attendees who provided us valuable feedback on the language and the tool.

Presentation materials, posters, brochures and tools can be downloaded from the Reports tab.

For those interested we also would like to invite you to be on the mailing list
sig-adl@vtec.volvo.se (Special Interest Group Architecture Description Languages), where we hope to continue the discussions.

Contact atesst-coordinator@vtec.volvo.se to join.