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Springer Formal Methods And Testing An Outcome Of The Fortest Network. Revised Selected Papers 2008 Edition by Robert M. Hierons Jonathan P. Bowen Mark Harman
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and peer-reviewed outcome of the Formal Methods and Testing (FORTEST) network - formed as a network established under UK EPSRC funding that investigated the relationships between formal (and semi-formal) methods and software testing - now being a subject group of two BCS Special Interest Groups: Formal Aspects of Computing Science (BCS FACS) and Special Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST).Each of the 12 chapters in this book describes a way in which the study of formal methods and software testing can be combined in a manner that brings the benefits of formal methods (e.g. precision clarity provability) with the advantages of testing (e.g. scalability generality applicability). Table of contents : Model Based Testing with Labelled Transition Systems.- Model-Based Testing of Object-Oriented Reactive Systems with Spec Explorer.- Testing Real-Time Systems Using UPPAAL.- Coverage Criteria for State Based Specifications.- Testing in the Distributed Test Architecture.- Testing from X-Machine Specifications.- Testing Data Types Implementations from Algebraic Specifications.- From MC/DC to RC/DC: Formalization and Analysis of Control-Flow Testing Criteria.- Comparing the Effectiveness of Testing Techniques.- The Test Technology TTCN-3.- Testability Transformation - Program Transformation to Improve Testability.- Modelling the Effects of Combining Diverse Software Fault Detection Techniques.