Second International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'96)
A formal approach to requirements based testing in open systems standards
Colorado Springs, Colorado
April 15-April 18
ISBN: 0-8186-7252-8
Experience with an innovative approach to requirements based testing in the IEEE POSIX arena is presented. The work described in this paper is based on a full scale conformance test suite development for the standard IEEE Std 10035-The Ada Language Binding to POSIX. The approach taken in this work is based on a formal description of test requirements which can be automatically translated into executable tests by the Clemson Automated Testing System (CATS). A brief design overview of CATS, as well as a design taxonomy for the testing requirements is presented. Lessons learned from this experienced recommendations for future work conclude the paper.
Index Terms:
open systems; IEEE standards; software standards; conformance testing; testing; systems analysis; formal specification; requirements based testing; IEEE POSIX arena; formal approach; open systems standards; full scale conformance test suite development; test requirements; automatic translation; executable tests; Clemson Automated Testing System; design taxonomy; IEEE Std 10035-The Ada Language Binding to POSIX
Citation:
J.F. Leathrum, K.A. Liburdy, "A formal approach to requirements based testing in open systems standards," icre, pp.94, Second International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'96), 1996