ConData: a Tool for Automating Specification-based Test Case Generation for Communication Systems

  • Authors:
  • Eliane Martins;Selma B. Sabião;Ana Maria Ambrosio

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes a tool called ConData used as test generation for communication protocols specified as extended finite state machines. The strategy for test generation combines different specification-based test methods: (i) transition testing for the control part of a protocol and (ii) syntax and equivalence partitioning for the data part. The tool uses a representation of the protocol in PSL (Protocol Specification Language), which is transformed into a format readable by a Prolog program. This implements the test strategies mentioned above. The text also presents some results obtained in the test generation for the protocol of the Tele-command Communication System of the SACI-1 satellite.