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International Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Objects

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Testing Real-Time Systems under Uncertainty

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Model-based testing is a promising technique for improving the quality of testing by automatically generating an efficient set of provably valid test cases from a system model. Testing embedded real-time systems is challenging because it must deal with timing, concurrency, processing and computation of complex mixed discrete and continuous signals, and limited observation and control. Whilst several techniques and tools have been proposed, few deals systematically with models capturing the indeterminacy resulting from concurrency, timing and limited observability and controllability. This paper proposes a number of model-based test generation principles and techniques that aim at efficient testing of timed systems under uncertainty.

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    Alexandre David, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Shuhao Li, Marius Mikucionis & Brian Nielsen

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David, A., Larsen, K.G., Li, S., Mikucionis, M., Nielsen, B. (2011). Testing Real-Time Systems under Uncertainty. In: Aichernig, B.K., de Boer, F.S., Bonsangue, M.M. (eds) Formal Methods for Components and Objects. FMCO 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25271-6_19

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