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During the application of a test sequence in a distributed test architecture, the existence of multiple testers brings out the possibility of synchronization problems among remote testers and the possibility that output-shifting faults go undetected. These problems often require the use of coordination message exchanges among testers. This paper proposes a method that generates synchronizable test sequences that detect output-shifting faults and the use of coordination message is minimized. This method utilizes a set of transformation rules to construct an auxiliary digraph from a given specification and test generation involves finding a rural Chinese postman tour in the digraph to yield the minimal test sequence.
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Huang, Cd., Jiang, F. (2005). Generating Minimal Synchronizable Test Sequence That Detects Output-Shifting Faults. In: Lu, X., Zhao, W. (eds) Networking and Mobile Computing. ICCNMC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3619. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11534310_121
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