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Abstract | ||
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This paper presents a specification-based testing approach that compares software specifications defined at different levels of abstraction, e.g. architecture and implementation, against specified system goals. We believe that a goal-driven approach that connects several development artifacts through verification of specified goals provides useful traceability links between those artifacts as well as an efficient testing technique. Our approach begins with a system goal graph in which high-level goals are step-wise refined into low-level functional goals that can be realized as code components. Each of the architectural components is associated with a plan that describes the component's functional behavior. Source code is annotated with goals from plans and events that achieve the goals; code is then precompiled to emit those goals and events at run time. Plans are automatically translated into a rule-based recognizer. An oracle is produced from the pre- and post-conditions associated with the plan's goals. When the program executes, the goals and events emitted are automatically tested against the plans and expected results. As components achieve their component-level plans, a higher-level plan recognizer, concerned with the integration of components, can verify correct system behavior over the interaction trace of a collection of lower-level plans. A small example illustrates the concept. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1145/1147249.1147258 | ROSATEA |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
lower-level plan,system goal graph,source code,architecture-based testing,higher-level plan recognizer,code component,goal-driven approach,specification-based testing approach,specified system goal,correct system behavior,component-level plan,software development,software specification,rule based | Graph,Architecture,Programming language,Abstraction,Source code,Computer science,Oracle,Real-time computing,Software,Specification based testing,Traceability | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1-59593-459-6 | 2 | 0.39 |
References | Authors | |
13 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristina Winbladh | 1 | 138 | 8.12 |
| Thomas A. Alspaugh | 2 | 266 | 21.31 |
| Hadar Ziv | 3 | 121 | 13.62 |
| Debra Richardson | 4 | 20 | 4.48 |