Труды Института системного программирования РАН (Oct 2018)
Conformance theory development: semantics, formal models, algorithms
Abstract
The paper covers theoretical and practical works on conformance testing performed in ISP RAS since 1994 till now. The conformance theory development was done in various directions and, in the whole, was characterized by generalization of the interaction semantics, models and conformances in use. The necessity of such generalization was imposed, first of all, by requirements of testing practice. It is true for such system properties as nondeterminism, partial specified, asynchronous behavior, diversity of test stimuli and observations of the implementation behavior etc. It was always focused on testing effectiveness defined both by optimization of tests suites and by test generation algorithms including on-the-fly. We consider the main milestones on this way in a brief and informal discussion, paying attention not to details, but to the main problems and their solutions trying to reveal the common tendency of the development
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