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Interactive Testing with HOL-TestGen

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Formal Approaches to Software Testing (FATES 2005)

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HOL-TestGen is a test environment for specification-based unit testing build upon the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL . While there is considerable skepticism with regard to interactive theorem provers in testing communities, we argue that they are a natural choice for (automated) symbolic computations underlying systematic tests. This holds in particular for the development on non-trivial formal test plans of complex software, where some parts of the overall activity require inherently guidance by a test engineer. In this paper, we present the underlying methods for both black box and white box testing in interactive unit test scenarios. HOL-TestGen can also be understood as a unifying technical and conceptual framework for presenting and investigating the variety of unit test techniques in a logically consistent way.

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  1. Information Security, ETH Zürich, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Achim D. Brucker & Burkhart Wolff

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  1. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

    Wolfgang Grieskamp

  2. Ericsson Deutschland GmbH, 52134, Herzogenrath, Germany

    Carsten Weise

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Brucker, A.D., Wolff, B. (2006). Interactive Testing with HOL-TestGen. In: Grieskamp, W., Weise, C. (eds) Formal Approaches to Software Testing. FATES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3997. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11759744_7

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