2013/06/14 by Peter Schrammel, Schrammel, Peter, Tom Melham +3
Computer Science · #C.3 #D.2.4 #D.2.5 #F.2.2 #F.3.1 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Formal Methods in Verification #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Reliability and Analysis Research #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.3882
openalex publication_date 2013/06/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Testing of synchronous reactive systems is challenging because long input sequences are often needed to drive them into a state at which a desired feature can be tested. This is particularly problematic in on-target testing, where a system is tested in its real-life application environment and the time required for resetting is high. This paper presents an approach to discovering a test case chain---a single software execution that covers a group of test goals and minimises overall test execution time. Our technique targets the scenario in which test goals for the requirements are given as safety properties. We give conditions for the existence and minimality of a single test case chain and minimise the number of test chains if a single test chain is infeasible. We report experimental results with a prototype tool for C code generated from Simulink models and compare it to state-of-the-art test suite generators.