Application of PROLOG to test sets generation from algebraic specifications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 186 LNCS, Issue , 1985, Pages 261-275

  Bouge L ^a   Choquet, N ^b   Fribourg, L ^b   Gaudel, M C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b route de Nozay ^*  (France)

^c UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; PATTERN MATCHING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

ALGEBRAIC DATA-TYPES; ALGEBRAIC SPECIFICATIONS; BASIC CONCEPTS; FORMAL DEFINITION; FUNCTIONAL TESTING; TEST SETS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 84910809974     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-15199-0_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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