Formal Approaches to Software Testing : 4th International Workshop, FATES 2004, Linz, Austria, September 21, 2004, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Jens Grabowski, Brian Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grabowski, Jens, editor.

Nielsen, Brian, Ph. D., editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

LNCS sublibrary. Programming and software engineering ; SL 2, 3395.

Programming and Software Engineering ; 3395

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering.

Programming languages (Electronic computers).

Computer logic.

Management information systems.

Computer science.

Software Engineering.

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Local Subjects:

Software Engineering.

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 228 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2005.

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Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.

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Summary:

Testing often accounts for more than 50% of the required e?ort during system development.Thechallengeforresearchistoreducethesecostsbyprovidingnew methods for the speci?cation and generation of high-quality tests. Experience has shown that the use of formal methods in testing represents a very important means for improving the testing process. Formal methods allow for the analysis andinterpretationofmodelsinarigorousandprecisemathematicalmanner.The use of formal methods is not restricted to system models only. Test models may alsobeexamined.Analyzingsystemmodelsprovidesthepossibilityofgenerating complete test suites in a systematic and possibly automated manner whereas examining test models allows for the detection of design errors in test suites and their optimization with respect to readability or compilation and execution time. Due to the numerous possibilities for their application, formal methods have become more and more popular in recent years. The Formal Approaches in Software Testing (FATES) workshop series also bene?ts from the growing popularity of formal methods. After the workshops in Aalborg (Denmark, 2001), Brno (Czech Republic, 2002) and Montr ́ eal (Canada, 2003), FATES 2004 in Linz (Austria) was the fourth workshop of this series. Similar to the workshop in 2003, FATES 2004 was organized in a?liation with the IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2004). FATES 2004 received 41 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three independent reviewers from the Program Committee with the help of some additional reviewers. Based on their evaluations, 14 full papers and one wo- in-progress paper from 11 di?erent countries were selected for presentation.

Contents:

Symbolic Test Generation

Test Generation Based on Symbolic Specifications

Symbolic Test Case Generation for Primitive Recursive Functions

Preserving Contexts for Soft Conformance Relation

Testing Non-functional Properties

Testing of Symbolic-Probabilistic Systems

A Test Generation Framework for quiescent Real-Time Systems

Online Testing of Real-time Systems Using Uppaal

Testing Deadlock-Freeness in Real-Time Systems: A Formal Approach

Test Development with Model Checking Techniques

Using Model Checking for Reducing the Cost of Test Generation

Specifying and Generating Test Cases Using Observer Automata

Semi-formal Development of a Fault-Tolerant Leader Election Protocol in Erlang

An Automata-Theoretic Approach for Model-Checking Systems with Unspecified Components

Test Optimization

Test Patterns with TTCN-3

High-Level Restructuring of TTCN-3 Test Data

Ordering Mutants to Minimise Test Effort in Mutation Testing

Testing COM Components Using Software Fault Injection and Mutation Analysis, and Its Empirical Study.

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978-3-540-31848-4

9783540318484

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