The category-partition method for specifying and generating fuctional tests
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Test Selection Based on Finite State Models
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ISSTA '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide
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Generating test cases for real-time systems from logic specifications
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Architecture-based software testing
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Software testing at the architectural level
ISAW '96 Joint proceedings of the second international software architecture workshop (ISAW-2) and international workshop on multiple perspectives in software development (Viewpoints '96) on SIGSOFT '96 workshops
Conformance testing with labelled transition systems: implementation relations and test generation
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SAAM: a method for analyzing the properties of software architectures
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Use of Sequencing Constraints for Specification-Based Testing of Concurrent Programs
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A language and environment for architecture-based software development and evolution
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Applied software architecture
Concurrency: state models & Java programs
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Deriving test plans from architectural descriptions
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An explorative journey from architectural tests definition down to code tests execution
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
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ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
An infrastructure for the rapid development of XML-based architecture description languages
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Automating the Generation and Sequencing of Test Cases from Model-Based Specifications
FME '93 Proceedings of the First International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Industrial-Strength Formal Methods
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CAV '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
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FTRTFT '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems
Tools and Techniques for Java API Testing
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Design of a Toolset for Dynamic Analysis of Concurrent Java Programs
IWPC '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Tool Support for Testing Concurrent Java Components
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Using Software Architecture for Code Testing
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Using Software Architecture for Code Testing
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Towards software architecture-based regression testing
WADS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Architecting dependable systems
The Audition Framework for TestingWeb Services Interoperability
EUROMICRO '05 Proceedings of the 31st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Using scenarios to support traceability
TEFSE '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering
On relating functional specifications to architectural specifications: a case study
Science of Computer Programming
Automated verification and test case generation for input validation
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Automation of software test
Architecture-driven platform independent deterministic replay for distributed hard real-time systems
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Coverage and adequacy in software product line testing
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The Journal of Supercomputing
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The Journal of Supercomputing
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FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
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Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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RISE'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Rapid integration of software engineering techniques
Needed foundations for assuring the desirable behavior of software-reliant systems
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An architecture-centric approach for producing quality systems
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Abstract--Our research deals with the use of Software Architecture (SA) as a reference model for testing the conformance of an implemented system with respect to its architectural specification. We exploit the specification of SA dynamics to identify useful schemes of interactions between system components and to select test classes corresponding to relevant architectural behaviors. The SA dynamics is modeled by Labeled Transition Systems (LTSs). The approach consists of deriving suitable LTS abstractions called ALTSs. ALTSs offer specific views of SA dynamics by concentrating on relevant features and abstracting away from uninteresting ones. Intuitively, deriving an adequate set of test classes entails deriving a set of paths that appropriately cover the ALTS. Next, a relation between these abstract SA tests and more concrete, executable tests needs to be established so that the architectural tests derived can be refined into code-level tests. In the paper, we use the TRMCS case study to illustrate our hands-on experience. We discuss the insights gained and highlight some issues, problems, and solutions of general interest in architecture-based testing.