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The community of software testing and that of protocol testing are traditionally disjoint. It is seldom the case that protocol testing experts present papers at the large software testing conferences and vice versa. This raises the question about the peculiarities of protocol testing with respect to general software testing. Here we will examine those peculiarities and the consequences in terms of specific methodology developed for protocol testing.

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Hogrefe, D. Main issues in protocol testing. STTT 4, 397–400 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-003-0109-6

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