Andreas Ulrich

Formal methods provide system designers with the possibility to analyze system models and reason about them with mathematical precision and rigor. The use of formal methods is not restricted to the early development phases of a system, though. The di?erent testing phases can also bene?t from them to ease the p- duction and application of e?ective and e?cient tests. Many still regard formal methods and testing as an odd combination. Formal methods traditionally aim at verifying and proving correctness (a typical academic activity), while testing shows only the presence of errors (this is what practitioners do). Nonetheless, there is an increasing interest in the use of formal methods in software testing. It is expected that formal approaches are about to make a major impact on eme- ing testing technologies and practices. Testing proves to be a good starting point for introducing formal methods in the software development process. This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software, FATES 2003, that was in a?liation with the IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2003). This year, FATES received 43 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three independent reviewers from the program committee with the help of - ditional reviewers. Based on their evaluations, 18 papers submitted by authors from 13 di?erent countries were selected for presentation at the workshop.

Third International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software, FATES 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 6th, 2003

Formal Approaches to Software Testing

Kenji Suzuki

Teruo Higashino

Toru Hasegawa

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Communicating Systems, TestCom 2008, and the 8th International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software, FATES 2008, jointly held in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from initially 58 submissions to both events. The papers cover new approaches, concepts, theories, methodologies, tools, and experiences in the field of testing of communicating systems and general software. They are organized in topical sections on general software testing, testing continuous and real-time systems, network testing, test generation, concurrent system testing, and applications of testing.

20th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference, TestCom 2008 8th International Workshop, FATES 2008, Tokyo, Japan, June 10-13, 2008 Proceedings

Testing of Software and Communicating Systems

Germany (2001); Sophia Antipolis, France (2002); Oxford, UK (2004); Montr´ eal, Canada (2005); New York, USA (2006) and Tallinn, Estonia (2007).

Die Torstraße ist zwei Kilometer lang und verbindet die Friedrichstraße im Westen mit der Prenzlauer Allee im Osten. Wie in kaum einer anderen Straße ist hier die brüchige Geschichte Berlins greifbar. Am Beispiel des Hauses Nr. 94, das ungefähr in der Mitte der Straße liegt, geht Andreas Ulrich den Spuren der Vergangenheit nach: Ob Agentin oder Konditor, ob Bankräuber oder Näherin, ob Super-Model oder Parteisekretär – das Haus und seine Bewohner haben viel erlebt: Dramatisches und Komisches, Absurdes und Unglaubliches.

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