Paper Info
Title
Engineering functional requirements of reactive systems using synchronous languages
Abstract
Automating the functional testing of reactive systems requires to provide a formal specification of the system environment which defines the admissible test inputs. It also requires a specification of the expected properties of the system in order to decide whether a test succeeds or fails. Engineering these formal specifications is a difficult task, as it is not part of the usual manual testing process. In this paper, we report some experiments that have been conducted within a project in collaboration with industrial developers of nuclear power plant control systems. In this project, automatic testing tools have been used for checking the correctness of reactive systems developed incrementally, using heterogeneous industrial engineering workbenches. But these tools appeared to be useful also for elaborating and refining formal, consistent, and accurate functional requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SIES.2013.6601486
Industrial Embedded Systems
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
formal specification,program testing,specification languages,automatic testing tool,correctness checking,formal specification,functional requirements engineering,functional testing,heterogeneous industrial engineering workbench,nuclear power plant control system,reactive systems engineering,synchronous languages
Conference
2150-3109
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.50
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erwan Jahier112413.15
Nicolas Halbwachs23957426.43
Pascal Raymond356753.53