A test calculus framework applied to network security policies

  • Authors:
  • Yliès Falcone;Jean-Claude Fernandez;Laurent Mounier;Jean-Luc Richier

  • Affiliations:
  • Vérimag Laboratory, Gières, France;Vérimag Laboratory, Gières, France;Vérimag Laboratory, Gières, France;LSR-IMAG Laboratory, St Martin d'Hères, France

  • Venue:
  • FATES'06/RV'06 Proceedings of the First combined international conference on Formal Approaches to Software Testing and Runtime Verification
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a syntax-driven test generation technique to automaticaly derive abstract test cases from a set of requirements expressed in a linear temporal logic. Assuming that an elementary test case (called a“tile”) is associated to each basic predicate of the formula, we show how to generate a set of test controlers associated to each logical operator, and able to coordinate the whole test execution. The test cases produced are expressed in a process algebraic style, allowing to take into account the test environment constraints. We illustrate this approach in the context of network security testing, for which more classical model-based techniques are not always suitable.