Extracting Formal Specifications to Strenghten Type Behaviour Testing
Dimitri Racordon,
Didier Buchs
Abstract:Testing has become an indispensable activity of software development, yet writing good and relevant tests remains a quite challenging task. One well-known problem is that it often is impossible or unrealistic to test for every outcome, as the input and/or output of a program component can represent incredbly large, unless infinite domains. A common approach to tackle this issue it to only test classes of cases, and to assume that those classes cover all (or at least most) of the cases a component is susceptibl… Show more
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