From Safety Verification to Safety Testing

A methodology that combines verification and conformance testing for validating safety requirements of reactive systems is presented. The requirements are first automatically verified on the system's specification. Then, test cases are automatically derived from the specification and the requirements, and executed on a black-box implementation of the system. The test cases attempt to push the implementation into violating a requirement. We show that an implementation conforms to its specification if and only if it passes all the test cases generated in this way.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: PTS
• Authors: Vlad Rusu, Hervé Marchand, Valéry Tschaen, Thierry Jéron, Bertrand Jeannet
• Keywords: Implementation, PTS 2004, PTS 2007, System's Specification, Test Cases