A Symbolic Framework for Model-Based Testing

Abstract. The starting point for Model-Based Testing is an implementation relation that formally defines when a formal model representing the System Under Test conforms to a formal model constituting its specification. An implementation relation for the formalism of Labelled Transition Systems is ioco. For ioco several test generation algorithms and test tools have been built. In this paper we define a framework for the symbolic implementation relation sioco which lifts ioco to Symbolic Transition Systems. These are transition systems with an explicit notion

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: FATES
• Authors: Lars Frantzen, Jan Tretmans, Tim A. C. Willemse
• Keywords: FATES 2006, Formal Model, Implementation Relation, Software Engineering, Transition Systems