A formal approach to property testing in causally consistent distributed traces

Formal Aspects of Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-83

  Hallal, H H ^a   Boroday, S ^a   Petrenko, A ^a   Ulrich, A ^b  

^a Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Monitoring; Passive testing; SDL; System validation; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; PASSIVE TESTING; SDL; SYSTEM VALIDATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 32544445825     PISSN: 09345043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00165-005-0082-9     Document Type: Article

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