Timing issues in distributed testing

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2007-04-14
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Theobjectiveofconformancetestingistodeterminewhetheranimplementationundertest(IUT)conformstoitsspecification.Indistributedtestarchitecturewheretherearemultipleremotetesters,theobjectivecanbecomplicatedbythefactthattestersmayencountercontrollabilityandobservabilityproblemsduringtheapplicationofatestsequence.Acertainamountofworkhasbeendoneintheareaofgeneratingtestsequencethatisfreefromtheseproblems.However,fewresearchersinvestigatethemfromtheaspectoftestexecution.Thisworkstudiesthetestexecutionphasewhentestsequencesareappliedtotheimple-mentationanditispointedoutthatcontrollabilityandobservabilityproblemscanberesolvedifandonlyifthetestsystemim-plementssometimingconstraints.Whendeterminingtheseconstraints,thedynamictimeinformationduringtestistakenintoaccount,whichreducesthetestexecutiontimeandimprovestestefficiencyfurther.