Formal Test Purposes and the Validity of Test Cases

  • Authors:
  • Peter H. Deussen;Stephan Tobies

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FORTE '02 Proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference Houston on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We give a formalization of the notion of test purpose based on (suitably restricted) Message Sequence Charts. We define the validity of test cases with respect to such a formal test purpose and provide a simple decision procedure for validity.