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Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'06)
An Improved Test Derivation Technique
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 24-July 26
ISBN: 0-7695-2640-3
Harry Gros-Desormeaux, Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane, France
Hacene Fouchal, Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane, France
Philippe Hunel, Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane, France
Complex systems need to be validated before industrial development. The last step in the validation process is testing. This part has to be considered with care in order to avoid troubles. This step takes a long time and requires a lot of resources.

In this paper, a complex system is described a Timed Labeled Transition System (TLTS). In such description, we focus on the specification of the event ordering respecting time constraints.

Since the TLTS may be very large (million of states for industrial systems), we present a solution to reduce the test derivation complexity. We aim to decompose the derivation process among some hosts participating to the generation algorithm. Each host will deal with a part of the system independently ; each host will derive test sequences for some fixed states for the system.

Some computations are redundant. In order to reduce them, on each host we use the Bloom filters concept used to manage a local cache containing computed sequences.

Then, we show how to compute the results given by all hosts in order give a set of test sequences for the whole system.

We suggest an implementation of this technique on the JXTA environment deployed on some hosts. We analyze a large number of experiments on different TLTS. Finally, we have shown that the use of Bloom filters make increases the test derivation performances.

Citation:
Harry Gros-Desormeaux, Hacene Fouchal, Philippe Hunel, "An Improved Test Derivation Technique," nca, pp.293-300, Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'06), 2006
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