| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C511883/1 |
| Title: |
Automated abstraction of code into a state-based specification and test generation |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bogdanov, Dr K |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Sheffield |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2005 |
Ends: |
31 December 2008 |
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206,347
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In traditional software development, specification and testing do not play an important role. In particular, changes to software code do not normally get reflected in a specification. At the same time, specification-based testing methods are very important for maintaining software quality, for identification of missing or incorrectly-implemented behaviour. The proposal aims to develop a method and a tool to take an incomplete state-based specification, hints for developers as to how it relates to code and both extract a complete (up-to-date) specification and generate tests from it.A number of existing specification-based testing methods rely on a program under test being built with testing in mind, and loose a lot in power if this is not true. In this project, observation of program behaviour under test will be used to make up for the missing information about a system, making it more amenable to testing using these methods
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http://www.shef.ac.uk |