The imminent transition to automated driving poses major challenges for the automotive industry in safeguarding the new generations of vehicles to be developed. Ensuring ECU functionality in automated driving, which allows the driver to turn away from traffic while driving, requires intensive testing activities due to the assumption of sole responsibility for the driving manoeuvres performed by the vehicle. An autonomously operating vehicle in road traffic must be able to cope with a large number of different environmental conditions without endangering the occupants or other road users. In requirements, the great variety of possible traffic situations and their chronological sequences in road traffic can usually only be inadequately captured methodically. In particular, conclusions about the robustness of the control unit software are not sufficient on the basis of requirements.