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Specifying and Generating Test Cases Using Observer Automata
Publication Type:
Conference/Workshop Paper
Venue:
the 4th International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software
Abstract
We present a technique for specifying coverage criteria and a method
for generating test suites for systems whose behaviours can be
described as extended finite state machines (EFSM). To specify
coverage criteria we use observer automata with parameters, which
monitor and accept traces that cover a given test criterion of an
EFSM. The flexibility of the technique is demonstrated by specifying
a number of well-known coverage criteria based on control- and
data-flow information using observer automata with parameters. We
also develop a method for generating test cases from coverage criteria
specified as observers. It is based on transforming a given observer
automata into a bitvector analysis problem that can be efficiently
implemented as an extension to an existing state-space exploration
such as, e.g. SPIN or UPPAAL.
Bibtex
@inproceedings{Blom2044,
author = {Johan Blom and Anders Hessel and Bengt Jonsson and Paul Pettersson},
title = { Specifying and Generating Test Cases Using Observer Automata},
month = {May},
year = {2004},
booktitle = {the 4th International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/2044-}
}