Approaches to specification-based testing

  • Authors:
  • D. Richardson;O. O'Malley;C. Tittle

  • Affiliations:
  • Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA;Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA;Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • TAV3 Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT '89 third symposium on Software testing, analysis, and verification
  • Year:
  • 1989

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Current software testing practices focus, almost exclusively, on the implementation, despite widely acknowledged benefits of testing based on software specifications. We propose approaches to specification-based testing by extending a wide variety of implementation-based testing techniques to be applicable to formal specification languages. We demonstrate these approaches for the Anna and Larch specification languages.