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TestingAutonomous Systems TiloLinz Abstract The development of autonomous vehicles is currently being promoted massively,notleast intheGermanautomotiveindustry,underveryhighinvestments. Therailway industry,shipbuilding,aircraft industry,androbotconstructionarealso workingonfurtherdevelopingtheirproducts(trains,ships,drones,robots,etc.) into self-drivingorautonomoussystems. This chapter therefore discusses the question in which aspects the testing of future autonomous systems will differ from the testing of software-based systems of today’s character and gives some suggestions for the corresponding further developmentof the test procedure. Keywords Software testing · Softwarequality · Autonomousvehicles · Autonomoussystems 1 Motivation The development of autonomous vehicles is currently being promoted massively, not least in the German automotive industry, under very high investments. The railway industry, shipbuilding, aircraft industry, and robot construction are also workingonfurtherdevelopingtheirproducts(trains,ships,drones,robots,etc.) into self-drivingorautonomoussystems. The world’s leading research and advisory company Gartner provides the following assessment in its report Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019: AutonomousThings [1]: • By 2023, over 30% of operational warehouse workers will be supplemented by collaborative robots. T.Linz imbusAG,Möhrendorf, Germany ©The Author(s) 2020 S.Goericke (ed.), The Future of Software QualityAssurance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29509-7_5 61