by Achim D. Brucker and Burkhart Wolff
HOL-TestGen is a test environment for specification-based unit testing build upon the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL@. While there is considerable skepticism with regard to interactive theorem provers in testing communities, we argue that they are a natural choice for (automated) symbolic computations underlying systematic tests. This holds in particular for the development on non-trivial formal test plans of complex software, where some parts of the overall activity require inherently guidance by a test engineer. In this paper, we present the underlying methods for both black box and white box testing in interactive unit test scenarios. HOL-TestGen can also be understood as a unifying technical and conceptual framework for presenting and investigating the variety of unit test techniques in a logically consistent way.
Keywords: symbolic test case generations, black box testing, white box testing, theorem proving, interactive testing
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Achim D. Brucker and Burkhart Wolff.
Interactive Testing using HOL-TestGen.
In Formal Approaches to Testing of Software. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3997), Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Keywords: symbolic test case generations, black box testing, white box testing, theorem proving, interactive testing
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abstract | = | {HOL-TestGen is a test environment for specification-based unit testing build upon the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL\@. While there is considerable skepticism with regard to interactive theorem provers in testing communities, we argue that they are a natural choice for (automated) symbolic computations underlying systematic tests. This holds in particular for the development on non-trivial formal test plans of complex software, where some parts of the overall activity require inherently guidance by a test engineer. In this paper, we present the underlying methods for both black box and white box testing in interactive unit test scenarios. HOL-TestGen can also be understood as a unifying technical and conceptual framework for presenting and investigating the variety of unit test techniques in a logically consistent way.}, | |
address | = | {Heidelberg}, | |
author | = | {Achim D. Brucker and Burkhart Wolff}, | |
booktitle | = | {Formal Approaches to Testing of Software}, | |
doi | = | {10.1007/11759744_7}, | |
editor | = | {Wolfgang Grieskamp and Carsten Weise}, | |
isbn | = | {3-540-25109-X}, | |
keywords | = | {symbolic test case generations, black box testing, white box testing, theorem proving, interactive testing}, | |
language | = | {USenglish}, | |
location | = | {Edinburgh}, | |
number | = | {3997}, | |
= | {https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/download/2005/brucker.ea-interactive-2005.pdf}, | ||
project | = | {CSFMDOS}, | |
publisher | = | {Springer-Verlag}, | |
series | = | {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, | |
title | = | {Interactive Testing using {HOL}-{TestGen}}, | |
url | = | {https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/abstract/brucker.ea-interactive-2005}, | |
year | = | {2005}, |