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Testing reactive systems is important to guarantee a precise and robust software development process. Pushdown reactive systems are complex applications where the interaction with the environment is regulated by a pushdown memory and, in general, can be specified by the formalism of Input/Output Visibly Pushdown Labeled Transition System (IOVPTS). A conformance checking can then be applied to verify whether an implementation is in compliance to a specification using an appropriate conformance relation. In this work, we establish a conformance relation based on Visibly Pushdown Languages (VPLs) to model sets of desirable and undesirable behaviors of systems. Further, we show that test suites with a complete fault coverage can be generated using this new conformance relation for pushdown reactive systems.
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It is also customary to write \(\mathcal {O}(m\ln m)\) as \(\widetilde{\mathcal {O}}(m)\). In the sequel, we can always replace \(\mathcal {O}(\cdot )\) by \(\widetilde{\mathcal {O}}(\cdot )\).
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Bonifacio, A.L. (2024). Language-Based Testing for Pushdown Reactive Systems. In: Barbosa, H., Zohar, Y. (eds) Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications. SBMF 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49342-3_5
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