Controllable Test Cases for the Distributed Test Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Robert M. Hierons;Mercedes G. Merayo;Manuel Núñez

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom UB8 3PH;Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom UB8 3PH and Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Complutense de M ...;Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ATVA '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the distributed test architecture, a system with multiple ports is tested using a tester at each port/interface, these testers cannot communicate with one another and there is no global clock. Recent work has defined an implementation relation for testing against an input-output transition system in the distributed test architecture. However, this framework placed no restrictions on the test cases and, in particular, allowed them to produce some kind of nondeterminism. In addition, it did not consider the test generation problem. This paper explores the class of controllable test cases for the distributed test architecture, defining a new implementation relation and a test generation algorithm.