Testing abstract behavioral specifications

We present a range of testing techniques for the Abstract Behavioral Specification (ABS) language and apply them to an industrial case study. ABS is a formal modeling language for highly variable, concurrent, component-based systems. The nature of these systems makes them susceptible to the introduc...

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Autores: Wong, Peter Y. H., Bubel, Richard, Boer, Frank S. de, Gómez Zamalloa, Miguel, Gouw, Stijn de, Hähnle, Reiner, Meinke, Karl, Sindhu, Muddassar Azam
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/24413
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24413
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:004.438
Informática (Informática)
Lenguajes de programación
1203.17 Informática
1203.23 Lenguajes de Programación
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Sumario:We present a range of testing techniques for the Abstract Behavioral Specification (ABS) language and apply them to an industrial case study. ABS is a formal modeling language for highly variable, concurrent, component-based systems. The nature of these systems makes them susceptible to the introduction of subtle bugs that are hard to detect in the presence of steady adaptation. While static analysis techniques are available for an abstract language such as ABS, testing is still indispensable and complements analytic methods. We focus on fully automated testing techniques including blackbox and glassbox test generation as well as runtime assertion checking, which are shown to be effective in an industrial setting.