2 Search Results for "Gazda, Maciej"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.34
New Fault Domains for Conformance Testing of Finite State Machines

Authors: Frits Vaandrager and Ivo Melse

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 348, 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025)

Abstract
A fault domain reflects a tester’s assumptions about faults that may occur in an implementation and that need to be detected during testing. A fault domain that has been widely studied in the literature on black-box conformance testing is the class of finite state machines (FSMs) with at most m states. Numerous strategies for generating test suites have been proposed that guarantee fault coverage for this class. These so-called m-complete test suites grow exponentially in m-n, where n is the number of states of the specification, so one can only run them for small values of m-n. But the assumption that m-n is small is not realistic in practice. In his seminal paper from 1964, Hennie raised the challenge to design checking experiments in which the number of states may increase appreciably. In order to solve this long-standing open problem, we propose (much larger) fault domains that capture the assumption that all states in an implementation can be reached by first performing a sequence from some set A (typically a state cover for the specification), followed by k arbitrary inputs, for some small k. The number of states of FSMs in these fault domains grows exponentially in k. We present a sufficient condition for k-A-completeness of test suites with respect to these fault domains. Our condition implies k-A-completeness of two prominent m-complete test suite generation strategies, the Wp and HSI methods. Thus these strategies are complete for much larger fault domains than those for which they were originally designed, and thereby solve Hennie’s challenge. We show that three other prominent m-complete methods (H, SPY and SPYH) do not always generate k-A-complete test suites.
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Frits Vaandrager and Ivo Melse. New Fault Domains for Conformance Testing of Finite State Machines. In 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 348, pp. 34:1-34:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{vaandrager_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.34,
  author =	{Vaandrager, Frits and Melse, Ivo},
  title =	{{New Fault Domains for Conformance Testing of Finite State Machines}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025)},
  pages =	{34:1--34:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-389-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{348},
  editor =	{Bouyer, Patricia and van de Pol, Jaco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239843},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: conformance testing, finite state machines, Mealy machines, apartness, observation tree, fault domains, k-A-complete test suites}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.130
Logical Characterisation of Hybrid Conformance

Authors: Maciej Gazda and Mohammad Reza Mousavi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 168, 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)

Abstract
Logical characterisation of a behavioural equivalence relation precisely specifies the set of formulae that are preserved and reflected by the relation. Such characterisations have been studied extensively for exact semantics on discrete models such as bisimulations for labelled transition systems and Kripke structures, but to a much lesser extent for approximate relations, in particular in the context of hybrid systems. We present what is to our knowledge the first characterisation result for approximate notions of hybrid refinement and hybrid conformance involving tolerance thresholds in both time and value. Since the notion of conformance in this setting is approximate, any characterisation will unavoidably involve a notion of relaxation, denoting how the specification formulae should be relaxed in order to hold for the implementation. We also show that an existing relaxation scheme on Metric Temporal Logic used for preservation results in this setting is not tight enough for providing a characterisation of neither hybrid conformance nor refinement. The characterisation result, while interesting in its own right, paves the way to more applied research, as our notion of hybrid conformance underlies a formal model-based technique for the verification of cyber-physical systems.
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Maciej Gazda and Mohammad Reza Mousavi. Logical Characterisation of Hybrid Conformance. In 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 168, pp. 130:1-130:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{gazda_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.130,
  author =	{Gazda, Maciej and Mousavi, Mohammad Reza},
  title =	{{Logical Characterisation of Hybrid Conformance}},
  booktitle =	{47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)},
  pages =	{130:1--130:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-138-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{168},
  editor =	{Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.130},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-125377},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.130},
  annote =	{Keywords: Logical Characterisation, Metric Temporal Logic, Conformance, Behavioural Equivalence, Hybrid Systems, Relaxation}
}
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