Formal Methods and Testing

An Outcome of the FORTEST Network. Revised Selected Papers

• Author(s): Robert M. Hierons, Jonathan P. Bowen, Mark Harman,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 367
• ISBN_10: 3540789162
  ISBN_13: 9783540789161
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General , Computers / Programming Languages / General , Computers / Programming / General , Business & Economics / Information Management , Computers / Information Technology , Computers / Systems Architecture / General ,

Description:...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and peer-reviewed outcome of the Formal Methods and Testing (FORTEST) network - formed as a network established under UK EPSRC funding that investigated the relationships between formal (and semi-formal) methods and software testing - now being a subject group of two BCS Special Interest Groups: Formal Aspects of Computing Science (BCS FACS) and Special Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST).

Each of the 12 chapters in this book describes a way in which the study of formal methods and software testing can be combined in a manner that brings the benefits of formal methods (e.g., precision, clarity, provability) with the advantages of testing (e.g., scalability, generality, applicability).