Novel Strategy Generating Variable-Length State Machine Test Paths
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/68407700:21230/22:00360011
Result on the web
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12172.pdf" target="_blank" >https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12172.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218194022500474" target="_blank" >10.1142/S0218194022500474</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Novel Strategy Generating Variable-Length State Machine Test Paths
Original language description
Finite State Machine is a popular modeling notation for various systems, especially software and electronic. Test paths (TPs) can be automatically generated from the system model to test such systems using a suitable algorithm. This paper presents a strategy that generates TPs and allows to start and end TPs only in defined states of the finite state machine. The strategy also simultaneously supports generating TPs only of length in a given range. For this purpose, alternative system models, test coverage criteria, and a set of algorithms are developed. The strategy is compared with the best alternative based on the reduction of the test set generated by the established N-switch coverage approach on a mix of 171 industrial and artificially generated problem instances. The proposed strategy outperforms the compared variant in a smaller number of TP steps. The extent varies with the used test coverage criterion and preferred TP length range from none to two and half fold difference. Moreover, the proposed technique detected up to 30% more simple artificial defects inserted into experimental SUT models per one test step than the compared alternative technique. The proposed strategy is well applicable in situations where a possible TP starts and ends in a state machine needs to be reflected and, concurrently, the length of the TPs has to be in a defined range.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
ISSN
0218-1940
e-ISSN
1793-6403
Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
SG - SINGAPORE
Number of pages
32
Pages from-to
1247-1278
UT code for WoS article
000848724700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85136515598