Testing with model checkers: a survey

G Fraser, F Wotawa, PE Ammann - … Testing, Verification and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
About a decade after the initial proposal to use model checkers for the generation of test
cases we take a look at the results in this field of research. Model checkers are formal …

One evaluation of model-based testing and its automation

A Pretschner, W Prenninger, S Wagner… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Model-based testing relies on behavior models for the generation of model traces: input and
expected output---test cases---for an implementation. We use the case study of an …

The risks of coverage-directed test case generation

G Gay, M Staats, M Whalen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A number of structural coverage criteria have been proposed to measure the adequacy of
testing efforts. In the avionics and other critical systems domains, test suites satisfying …

Test-suite reduction for model based tests: Effects on test quality and implications for testing

MPE Heimdahl, D George - Proceedings. 19th International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model checking techniques can be successfully employed as a test case generation
technique to generate tests from formal models. The number of tests cases produced …

Model-based testing

A Pretschner - Proceedings of the 27th international conference on …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Model-based testing has become increasingly popular in recent years. Major reasons
include (1) the need for quality assurance for increasingly complex systems,(2) the emerging …

On the danger of coverage directed test case generation

M Staats, G Gay, M Whalen, M Heimdahl - … , FASE 2012, Held as Part of the …, 2012 - Springer
In the avionics domain, the use of structural coverage criteria is legally required in
determining test suite adequacy. With the success of automated test generation tools, it is …

Automated oracle creation support, or: How I learned to stop worrying about fault propagation and love mutation testing

M Staats, G Gay, MPE Heimdahl - 2012 34th International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In testing, the test oracle is the artifact that determines whether an application under test
executes correctly. The choice of test oracle can significantly impact the effectiveness of the …

Safety and software intensive systems: Challenges old and new

MPE Heimdahl - Future of Software Engineering (FOSE'07), 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is an increased use of software in safety-critical systems; a trend that is likely to
continue in the future. Although traditional system safety techniques are applicable to …

[PDF][PDF] An automatic test case generation framework for Web Services.

Y Zheng, J Zhou, P Krause - J. Softw., 2007 - Citeseer
BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) as a de-facto standard for web service
orchestration has drawn particularly attention from researchers and industries. BPEL is a …

On the number and nature of faults found by random testing

I Ciupa, A Pretschner, M Oriol… - Software Testing …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Intuition suggests that random testing should exhibit a considerable difference in the number
of faults detected by two different runs of equal duration. As a consequence, random testing …