Using Static Analysis to Improve Automatic Test Generation

  • Authors:
  • Marius Bozga;Jean-Claude Fernandez;Lucian Ghirvu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • TACAS '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems: Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2000
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Conformance testing is still the main industrial validation technique for telecommunication protocols. The automatic construction of test cases based on the model approach is hindered by the state explosion problem. Our method reduces its magnitude by reconsidering the test case generation at a higher level and by taking advantage of some static analysis techniques, in particular the slicing techniques. The specification is simplified by pipelining a set of three modules, each one implementing a different slicing technique.