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Specification Based Testing: Towards Practice

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Perspectives of System Informatics (PSI 2001)

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Abstract

Specification based testing facilities are gradually becoming software production aids. The paper shortly considers the current state of the art, original ISPRAS/RedVerst experience, and outlines the ways for further research and testing tool development. Both conceptual and technical problems of novel specification based testing technologies introduction are considered.

The work was partially supported by RFBR grant No. 99-01-00207 and Microsoft Research grant No. 2000-35.

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  1. Institute for System Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPRAS), B. Communisticheskaya, 25, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander K. Petrenko

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  1. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Bldg.322, 106-108, Richard Petersens Plads, 2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    Dines Bjørner

  2. Computer Science Department, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstr.21, 80290, Munich, Germany

    Manfred Broy

  3. A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Acad.Lavrentjev ave.,6, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Alexandre V. Zamulin

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Petrenko, A.K. (2001). Specification Based Testing: Towards Practice. In: Bjørner, D., Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45575-2_29

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