AutoKG - An Automotive Domain Knowledge Graph for Software Testing: A position paper

Industries have a significant amount of data in semi-structured and unstructured formats which are typically captured in text documents, spreadsheets, images, etc. This is especially the case with the software description documents used by domain experts in the automotive domain to perform tasks at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). In this paper, we propose an end-to-end pipeline to extract an Automotive Knowledge Graph (AutoKG) from textual data using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques with the application of automatic test case generation. The proposed pipeline primarily consists of the following components: 1) AutoOntology, an ontology that has been derived by analyzing several industry scale automotive domain software systems, 2) AutoRE, a Relation Extraction (RE) model to extract triplets from various sentence types typically found in the automotive domain, and 3) AutoVec, a neural embedding based algorithm for triplet matching and context-based search. We demonstrate the pipeline with an application of automatic test case generation from requirements using AutoKG.