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Testing Against Non-deterministic FSMs: A Probabilistic Approach for Test Suite Minimization

  • Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS
  • National Research University
  • Airbus Defence and Space

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Abstract

The paper is devoted to model based testing against non-deterministic specifications. Such test derivation strategies are well developed, for example against non-deterministic Finite State Machines, however the length of the corresponding test suite can be exponential w.r.t. the number of specification states. We therefore discuss how a test suite can be minimized or reduced when certain level of guarantee concerning its fault coverage is still preserved. The main idea behind the approach is to augment the specification by assigning probabilities for the non-deterministic transitions and later on evaluate the probability of each test sequence to detect the relevant faulty implementation. Given a probability P which is user-defined, we propose an approach for minimizing a given exhaustive test suite TS such that, it stays exhaustive with the probability no less than P.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTesting Software and Systems - 33rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDavid Clark, Hector Menendez, Ana Rosa Cavalli
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages55-61
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783031046728
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022
Event33rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software Systems, ICTSS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 10 Nov 202112 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13045 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference33rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software Systems, ICTSS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/11/2112/11/21

Keywords

  • Guaranteed fault coverage
  • Model based testing
  • Non-deterministic finite state machines
  • Probabilistic approach

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