Model-based specification animation using testgraphs

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

Volumn 2495, Issue , 2002, Pages 192-203

  Miller, Tim ^a   Strooper, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DIRECTED GRAPHS; SPECIFICATIONS;

MODEL-BASED SPECIFICATIONS; TESTGRAPHS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 84948985277     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36103-0_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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