2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Logic for Assessing Sets of Heterogeneous Testing Hypotheses
Authors : Ismael Rodríguez, Mercedes G. Merayo, Manuel Núñez
Published in: Testing of Communicating Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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To ensure the conformance of an
implementation under test
(IUT) with respect to a specification requires, in general, the application of an infinite number of tests. In order to use finite test suites, most testing methodologies add some feasible hypotheses about the behavior of the IUT. Since these methodologies are designed for considering a
fix
set of hypotheses, they usually do not have the capability of dealing with other scenarios where the set of assumed hypotheses varies. We propose a logic to infer whether a set of
observations
(i.e., results of test applications) allows to claim that the IUT conforms to the specification
if
a specific set of hypotheses (taken from a repertory) is assumed.