Verifying Test-Hypotheses. An Experiment in Test and Proof

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-27

  Brucker, Achim D ^a   Brügger, Lukas ^b   Wolff, Burkhart ^c  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

black box testing; formal verification; Isabelle HOL; symbolic test case generations; theorem proving

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY CONTROL; SPECIFICATIONS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING; THEOREM PROVING;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BLACK BOX TESTING; FORMAL PROOFS; FORMAL VERIFICATION; INTERACTIVE THEOREM PROVERS; ISABELLE/HOL; LOGICAL LINKS; NORMAL FORMS; SYMBOLIC TEST CASE GENERATIONS; TEST CASE GENERATIONS; TEST CASES; TEST DATUMS; TEST SPECIFICATIONS; TEST THEOREMS; VERIFYING TESTS;

AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION;

EID: 56849128513     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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