arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-03
Detecting Architectural Drift in Safety-Critical Firmware through Runtime Trace Analysis
Domenico Francesco De Angelis, Marco De Luca, Domenico Amalfitano, Pasquale Cimmino, Anna Rita Fasolino
Maintaining consistency between architectural design and runtime-observed behavior is challenging in long-lived safety-critical firmware. This paper presents a runtime-informed methodology for detecting architectural drift in ISO 26262-compliant firmware. The approach collects ha…