Boutheina Bannour , Arnault Lapitre , Pascale Le Gall
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This paper presents an approach leveraging symbolic execution techniques to generate test cases from models mixing data and time. Our methodology focuses on symbolic paths, satisfying a trace-determinism property, which allows testing behaviors in the presence of uninitialized state variables. We construct tree-like test cases around these test purposes, with verdicts on their leaves, meticulously crafting verdict conditions from symbolic execution path conditions encoding temporal data-dependent constraints. Our test case generation is implemented within the symbolic execution platform Diversity. Through experiments, we provide metrics and quantify some aspects of the generated test cases, including the reachability of verdicts within observation time frames specified by the tester.
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Science of Computer Programming is dedicated to the distribution of research results in the areas of software systems development, use and maintenance, including the software aspects of hardware design.
The journal has a wide scope ranging from the many facets of methodological foundations to the details of technical issues andthe aspects of industrial practice.
The subjects of interest to SCP cover the entire spectrum of methods for the entire life cycle of software systems, including
• Requirements, specification, design, validation, verification, coding, testing, maintenance, metrics and renovation of software;
• Design, implementation and evaluation of programming languages;
• Programming environments, development tools, visualisation and animation;
• Management of the development process;
• Human factors in software, software for social interaction, software for social computing;
• Cyber physical systems, and software for the interaction between the physical and the machine;
• Software aspects of infrastructure services, system administration, and network management.
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