TY - GEN
T1 - From faults via test purposes to test cases
T2 - 9th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2006. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006
AU - Aichernig, Bernhard K.
AU - Corrales Delgado, Carlo Jose Luis
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Fault-based testing is a technique where testers anticipate errors in a system under test in order to assess or generate test cases. The idea is to have enough test cases capable of detecting these anticipated errors. This paper presents a theory and technique for generating fault-based test cases for concurrent systems. The novel idea is to generate test purposes from faults that have been injected into a model of the system under test. Such test purposes form a specification of a more detailed test case that can detect the injected fault. The theory is based on the notion of refinement. The technique is automated using the TGV test case generator and an equivalence checker of the CADP tools. A case study of testing web servers demonstrates the practicability of the approach.
AB - Fault-based testing is a technique where testers anticipate errors in a system under test in order to assess or generate test cases. The idea is to have enough test cases capable of detecting these anticipated errors. This paper presents a theory and technique for generating fault-based test cases for concurrent systems. The novel idea is to generate test purposes from faults that have been injected into a model of the system under test. Such test purposes form a specification of a more detailed test case that can detect the injected fault. The theory is based on the notion of refinement. The technique is automated using the TGV test case generator and an equivalence checker of the CADP tools. A case study of testing web servers demonstrates the practicability of the approach.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33745792963&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/11693017_24
DO - 10.1007/11693017_24
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:33745792963
SN - 3540330933
SN - 9783540330936
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 324
EP - 338
BT - Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 9th International Conference, FASE 2006. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006, Proceedings
Y2 - 27 March 2006 through 28 March 2006
ER -