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PTS
2000
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14 years 11 months ago
Formal Test Automation: The Conference Protocol with PHACT
We discuss a case study of automatic test generation and test execution based on formal methods. The case is the Conference Protocol, a simple, chatbox-like protocol, for which (fo...
Lex Heerink, Jan Feenstra, Jan Tretmans
IV
2003
IEEE
92views Visualization» more  IV 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
A Visual Formalism for Graphical User Interfaces based on State Transition Diagrams
In this paper we present a “lightweight” visual formalism that can be used to examine the state space complexity of an interface. The method can form a basis for designing, te...
Carsten Maple, Tim French, Marc Conrad
FMCO
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Assertion-Based Encapsulation, Object Invariants and Simulations
In object-oriented programming, reentrant method invocations and shared references make it difficult to achieve adequate encapsulation for sound modular reasoning. This tutorial p...
David A. Naumann
ICTAC
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A Formal Approach to Heuristically Test Restorable Systems
Abstract. Given a nite state machine denoting the specication of a system, nding some short interaction sequences capable to reach some/all states or transitions of this machine...
Pablo Rabanal, Ismael Rodríguez, Fernando R...
FM
2003
Springer
92views Formal Methods» more  FM 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Composing Invariants
We explore the question of the composition of invariance specifications in a context of concurrent and reactive systems. Depending on how compositionality is stated and how invar...
Michel Charpentier