Specification-based testing of synchronous software

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Parissis;Farid Ouabdesselam

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire Logiciels Systèmes et Réseaux - Institut IMAG, BP 53,38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France;Laboratoire Logiciels Systèmes et Réseaux - Institut IMAG, BP 53,38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

  • Venue:
  • SIGSOFT '96 Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Synchronous programming makes the implementation of reactive software easier and safer. Automatic formal verification methods based on model-checking have been developed within the synchronous approach to prove the satisfaction by the software of safety properties. But these methods often require huge memory or time amounts. As a solution to that problem we propose a set of formally defined testing techniques allowing for automatic test data generation. These techniques can be used independently or as a complement to formal verification, since they need the same set of specifications.