Test generation for interaction detection in feature-rich communication systems

  • Authors:
  • Caixia Chi;Ruibing Hao

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Labs Research China, Lucent Technologies, Beijing, China;Bell Labs Research China, Lucent Technologies, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • TestCom'05 Proceedings of the 17th IFIP TC6/WG 6.1 international conference on Testing of Communicating Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper proposes a technique to generate test sequences to check the conformance of an implementation of a feature-rich communication system to its specification, as well as to detect the interactions between the features of the system. A concept called color span is introduced to measure the extent of the interactions between different features. A modified Chinese postman tour algorithm is proposed to produce an approximate minimum-cost and minimum color span tour of the transition graph of a finite-state machine. Test generation using the proposed algorithm for the SIP-based Internet telephony end system and for the Link Management Protocol are reported.