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Testing comprises activities that aim at showing that the intended and actual behaviors of a system differ, or at gaining confidence that they do not. The goal of testing is failure detection: observable differences between the behaviors of implementation and specification. Classical estimates relate one half of the overall development effort to testing. Even if Fagan [1] suspects that this percentage includes activities such as finding the causes of failures in the code and removing them, testing is an important and expensive activity in the development process.
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Pretschner, A. (2005). Model-Based Testing in Practice. In: Fitzgerald, J., Hayes, I.J., Tarlecki, A. (eds) FM 2005: Formal Methods. FM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3582. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11526841_37
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