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This paper presents a formal method for generating conformance tests for real-time systems. Our algorithm is complete in that, under a test hypothesis, if the system being tested passes every test generated then the tested system is bisimilar to its specification. Because the test algorithm has exponential worst case complexity and finite state automata models of real-time systems are typically very large, a judicious choice of model is critical for the successful testing of real-time systems. Developing such a model and demonstrating its effectiveness are the main contributions of this paper.
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Cardell-Oliver, R., Glover, T. (1998). A practical and complete algorithm for testing real-time systems. In: Ravn, A.P., Rischel, H. (eds) Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems. FTRTFT 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1486. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055352
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