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A temporal logic with constrained event modallities, TLCE, is proposed to represent test purposes for testing concurrent programs. The logic is capable can express not only temporal relationships among input and output events, but also data dependencies between event parameters. A TLCE-based test generation algorithm is developed to automatically derive symbolic test cases that incorporate given data dependency constraints as verdict conditions. The advantage of the approach is demonstrated with a case study on a cache coherence protocol.
The work of Peng Wu was partially supported by the INRIA/ARC project ProNoBis. The work of Daguang Liu and Huimin Lin was partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60421001.
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Liu, D., Wu, P., Lin, H. (2007). Symbolic Test Generation Using a Temporal Logic with Constrained Events. In: Jones, C.B., Liu, Z., Woodcock, J. (eds) Formal Methods and Hybrid Real-Time Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4700. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75221-9_21
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