Strategies for Automated Specification-Based Testing of Synchronous Software

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Parissis;Jérôme Vassy

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents new techniques for specificationbased-testing of synchronous software with the Lutess tool.Lutess provides a framework consisting in automaticallybuilding generators which interact with the software undertest and feed it with test input sequences. In the past fewyears, it has been established that operational profiles aswell as scenarios are powerfull tools allowing for a betterfault detection ability. As opposed to this last techniquewhich relies on the ability of the human tester to specifyscenarios, we propose an approach based on the solesoftware specification to automatically generate input sequenceswhich may correspond to fault revealing scenarios.