As the transition towards software-defined vehicles (SDVs) accelerates, manufacturers are consolidating functions onto increasingly powerful compute platforms. Systems that were once isolated are now integrated, and software lifecycles are extended through over-the-air updates. Features that previously existed within the boundaries of individual ECUs now interact across domains, delivering architectures that are more capable, but also significantly more complex to reason about. System behaviour is now increasingly shaped by interactions between concurrently executing components, communication pathways and timing relationships that are difficult to fully understand through static analysis or conventional testing alone.



