2017/05/29 by Nasser Alzahrani, Alzahrani, Nasser, Maria Spichkova +3
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1705.10032
Preprint. Accepted to the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2017). Final version published by SCITEPRESS, http://www.scitepress.org
arxiv created 2017/05/29 · arxiv updated 2017/05/30
This paper presents a framework to apply property-based testing (PBT) on top of temporal formal models. The aim of this work is to help software engineers to understand temporal models that are presented formally and to make use of the advantages of formal methods: the core time-based constructs of a formal method are schematically translated to the BeSpaceD extension of the Scala programming language. This allows us to have an executable Scala code that corresponds to the formal model, as well as to perform PBT of the models functionality. To model temporal properties of the systems, in the current work we focus on two formal languages, TLA+ and FocusST.