An implementation relation and test framework for timed distributed systems

Christophe Gaston (1) , Robert M. Hierons (2) , Pascale Le Gall (3)

1 DILS - Département Ingénierie Logiciels et Systèmes
2 Brunel University London [Uxbridge]
3 MAS - Mathématiques Appliquées aux Systèmes - EA 4037

Many systems interact with their environment at physically distributed interfaces and the distributed nature of any observations made is known to complicate testing. This paper concerns distributed testing, where a separate tester is placed at each localised interface and may only observe what happens at this interface. Most previous work on distributed model based testing has used models that are either finite state machines or input output transition systems. In this paper we define a framework for distributed testing from timed input output transition systems along with corresponding test hypotheses and a distributed conformance relation.

Keywords: symbolic input output transition systems; model based testing; timed systems; distributed systems

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

Christophe Gaston, Robert M. Hierons, Pascale Le Gall. An implementation relation and test framework for timed distributed systems. International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, Nov 2013, Istanbul, Turkey. ⟨cea-01810746⟩