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Saturation Effects in Testing of Formal Models
Annapolis, Maryland November 12-November 15
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISSRE.2002.117320813th International Symposium on Softw ...
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Tim Menzies, West Virginia University
David Owen, West Virginia University
Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University
Formal analysis of software is a powerful analysis tool, but can be too costly. Random search of formal models can reduce that cost, but is theoretically incomplete. However, random search of finite-state machines exhibits an early saturation effect, i.e., random search quickly yields all that can be found, even after a much longer search. Hence, we avoid the theoretical problem of incompleteness, provided that testing continues until after the saturation point. Such a random search is rapid, consumes little memory, is simple to implement, and can handle very large formal models (in one experiment shown here, over 10178 states).
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Tim Menzies, David Owen, Bojan Cukic, "Saturation Effects in Testing of Formal Models," issre, pp.15, 13th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'02), 2002
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