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Title: | Extending stream X-machines to specify and test systems with timeouts |
Authors: | Merayo, MG Hierons, RM Nunez, M |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Citation: | 6th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2008), Cape Town, pp. 201-210, Nov 2008. |
Abstract: | Stream X-machines are a kind of extended finite state machine used to specify real systems where communication between the components is modeled by using a shared memory.In this paper we introduce an extension of the Stream X-machines formalism in order to specify delays/timeouts.The time spent by a system waiting for the environment to react has the capability of affecting the set of available outputs of the system. So, a relation focusing on functional aspects must explicitly take into account the possible timeouts.We also propose a formal testing methodology allowing to systematically test a system with respect to a specification. Finally, we introduce a test derivation algorithm. Given a specification, the derived test suite is sound and complete, that is, a system under test successfully passes the test suite if and only if this system conforms to the specification. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3408 |
Appears in Collections: | Computer Science Software Engineering (B-SERC) Dept of Computer Science Theses |
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