Requirement-centric Reactive Testing for Safety-Related Automotive Software

We propose a test reactivity taxonomy for embedded automotive software that a tester can use to align the process of test design with the requirements specification and verification of the project at hand. The proposed test reactivity taxonomy can be used to explore, identify and design the right types of test reactivity which target a specific functional or non-functional requirement or an application-specific situation. The taxonomy can also be used to document software testing decisions and enable discussions between the relevant stakeholders. The ordering of information provided by the taxonomy could also be a starting point into identifying relationships, patterns and factors that influence the relevance of different reactivity dimensions.