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Some classes of finite state machines with polynomial length of distinguishing test cases

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Abstract

The paper is devoted to effective check of the existence and derivation of adaptive distinguishing sequences (distinguishing test cases) for possibly nondeterministic partial Finite State Machines (FSMs). The complexity of these problems for nondeterministic FSMs remains unknown, however the length of the corresponding test case is shown to be exponential. In this paper, we address FSM classes that allow to derive specific FSM projections for which the problem of checking whether a given FSM is adaptively distinguishing or not can be performed in polynomial time. In order to estimate the length of distinguishing test cases for FSMs of these classes we improve the upper bound on the length of an adaptive distinguishing test case for partial deterministic FSMs. The listed contributions make it possible to apply the proposed techniques for testing 'real' technical systems which behavior is decribed by (partial) nondeterministic FSMs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2016
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1680-1685
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450337397
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Apr 2016
Event31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2016 - Pisa, Italy
Duration: 4 Apr 20168 Apr 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Volume04-08-April-2016

Conference

Conference31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPisa
Period4/04/168/04/16

Keywords

  • Adaptive distinguishability
  • Complexity
  • Heuristics
  • Nondeterministic finite state machine (FSM)
  • Test case

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