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Formal Testing from Natural Language in an Industrial Context

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Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications (SBMF 2016)

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We present some results on developing formal testing strategies and tools for mobile applications, in the context of a partnership with Motorola, a Lenovo company. Actually, the overall scope is much larger, encompassing image processing, optimisation algorithms, sentiment analysis, energy-aware software design, and other research areas.

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The work described here had the contribution of several colleagues: Hugo Araujo, Flavia Barros, Ana Cavalcanti, Gustavo Carvalho, Alexandre Mota and Sidney Nogueira, among others.

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Sampaio, A., Arruda, F. (2016). Formal Testing from Natural Language in an Industrial Context. In: Ribeiro, L., Lecomte, T. (eds) Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications. SBMF 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10090. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49815-7_2

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