13th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'02) Saturation Effects in Testing of Formal Models Annapolis, Maryland November 12-November 15 ISBN: 0-7695-1763-3
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).
Citation:
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 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||