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Testing with Model Checker: Insuring Fault Visibility

Published

Author(s)

Vadim Okun, Paul E. Black, Yelena Yesha

Abstract

To detect a fault in software, a test case execution must be chosen so intermediate errors propagate to the output. We describe two modeling methods for specification-based mutation testing using model checkers that guarantee this propagation. We evaluate the methods empirically and show that they yield more useful tests than the previous "direct reflection" methods.
Citation
WSEAS Transactions on Systems
Volume
2
Issue
1

Keywords

formal methods, model checking, specification-based testing, mutation testing

Citation

Okun, V. , Black, P. and Yesha, Y. (2003), Testing with Model Checker: Insuring Fault Visibility, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=917181 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created January 5, 2003, Updated February 19, 2017