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Formalizing interoperability for test case generation purpose

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This study deals with interoperability testing of protocol implementations. The objective is to define a method for automatic test derivation based on formal definitions. First, the notion of interoperability criteria is introduced. They formally describes the conditions that two implementations must verify in order to be considered interoperable. Then, based on the equivalence of two of the defined interoperability criteria, we propose a method to derive automatically interoperability test cases that avoids the state-space explosion problem.

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Desmoulin, A., Viho, C. Formalizing interoperability for test case generation purpose. Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 11, 261–267 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-009-0103-8

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