Extending Stream X-Machines to specify and test systems with timeouts

Stream X-machines are a kind of extended finite state machine used to specify real systems where communication between the components is modeled by using a shared memory. In this paper we introduce an extension of the Stream X-machines formalism in order to specify delays/timeouts. The time spent by...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: García Merayo, María De Las Mercedes, Hierons, Robert M., Núñez García, Manuel
Format: book part
Publication Date:2008
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/53127
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53127
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:519.8
Finite-state machines
Timed automata
Specification
Computer Science
Software Engineering
Engineering
Electrical & Electronic
Investigación operativa (Matemáticas)
1207 Investigación Operativa
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Summary:Stream X-machines are a kind of extended finite state machine used to specify real systems where communication between the components is modeled by using a shared memory. In this paper we introduce an extension of the Stream X-machines formalism in order to specify delays/timeouts. The time spent by a system waiting for the environment to react has the capability of affecting the set of available outputs of the system. So, a relation focusing on functional aspects must explicitly take into account the possible timeouts. We also propose a formal testing methodology allowing to systematically test a system with respect to a specification. Finally, we introduce a test derivation algorithm. Given a specification, the derived test suite is sound and complete, that is, a system under test successfully passes the test suite if and only if this system conforms to the specification.