Property-based testing: the ProTest project

  • Authors:

  • John Derrick;Neil Walkinshaw;Thomas Arts;Clara Benac Earle;Francesco Cesarini;Lars-Ake Fredlund;Victor Gulias;John Hughes;Simon Thompson

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computing, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK;Department of Computing, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK;Goteborgs Universitet, Goeteboug, Sweden;Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Erlang Solutions Ltd, London;Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Lambdastream Servicios Interactivos SL, Coruna, Spain;Quviq AB, Savedalen, Sweden;University of Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, UK

  • Venue:
  • FMCO'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Formal methods for components and objects
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The ProTest project is an FP7 STREP on property based testing. The purpose of the project is to develop software engineering approaches to improve reliability of service-oriented networks; support fault-finding and diagnosis based on specified properties of the system. And to do so we will build automated tools that will generate and run tests, monitor execution at run-time, and log events for analysis. The Erlang / Open Telecom Platform has been chosen as our initial implementation vehicle due to its robustness and reliability within the telecoms sector. It is noted for its success in the ATM telecoms switches by Ericsson, one of the project partners, as well as for multiple other uses such as in facebook, yahoo etc. In this paper we provide an overview of the project goals, as well as detailing initial progress in developing property based testing techniques and tools for the concurrent functional programming language Erlang.