Gordon Fraser

Tests and Proofs: 4th International Conference, TAP 2010, Malaga, Spain, July 1-2, 2010, Proceedings - Programming and Software Engineering Gordon Fraser 2010 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Invited Talks -- How Tests and Proofs Impede One Another: The Need for Always-On Static and Dynamic Feedback / Michael D. Ernst -- Myths in Software Engineering: From the Other Side / Nachiappan Nagappan -- Specifications from Testing -- QuickSpec: Guessing Formal Specifications Using Testing / Koen Claessen, Nicholas Smallbone, John Hughes -- Testing Proofs -- Testing First-Order Logic Axioms in Program Verification / Ki Yung Ahn, Ewen Denney -- Proving and Visualizing OCL Invariant Independence by Automatically Generated Test Cases / Martin Gogolla, Lars Hamann, Mirco Kuhlmann -- Proof Process Evaluation with Mutation Analysis: Extended Abstract / Lydie du Bousquet, Michel LEvy -- Test Generation Using Proof Techniques -- Generating Regression Unit Tests Using a Combination of Verification and Capture & Replay / Christoph Gladisch, Shmuel Tyszberowicz, Bernhard Beckert, Amiram Yehudai -- DyGen: Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests via Mining Gigabytes of Dynamic Traces / Suresh Thummalapenta, Jonathan de Halleux, Nikolai Tillmann, Scott Wadsworth -- Combining Static Analysis and Test Generation for C Program Debugging / Omar Chebaro, Nikolai Kosmatov, Alain Giorgetti, Jacques Julliand -- Generating High-Quality Tests for Boolean Circuits by Treating Tests as Proof Encoding / Eugene Goldberg, Panagiotis Manolios -- Theorem Proving and Testing -- Relational Analysis of (Co)inductive Predicates, (Co)algebraic Datatypes, and (Co)recursive Functions / Jasmin Christian Blanchette -- Combining Theorem Proving and Narrowing for Rewriting-Logic Specifications / Vlad Rusu -- Abstraction -- Syntactic Abstraction of B Models to Generate Tests / Jacques Julliand, Nicolas Stouls, Pierre-christophe BuE, Pierre-Alain Masson -- Building a Test-Ready Abstraction of a Behavioral Model Using CLP / Pierre-Christophe BuE, FrEdEric Dadeau, Adrien de Kermadec, Fabrice Bouquet -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: This volume contains the proceedings of TAP 2010, the 4th International C- ference on Tests and Proofs held during July 1 2 in M alaga, Spain as part of TOOLS Federated Conferences. TAP 2010wasthe fourth event of an ongoingseriesof conferencesdevoted to the convergence of proofs and tests. In the past, proving and testing were seen as very di?erent and even competing techniques. Proving people would say: If correctness is proved, what do we need tests for? Testers, on the other hand, would claim that proving is too limited in applicability and testing is the only truepathtocorrectness. Ofcourse, bothhaveapoint, buttoquoteEdBrinksma from his 2009 keynote at the Dutch Testing Day and Testcom/FATES: Who would want to ?y in an airplane with software proved correct, but not tested? Indeed, the true power lies in the combination of both approaches. Today, m- ern test systems rely on techniques deeply rooted in formal proof techniques, and testing techniques make it possible to apply proof techniques where there was no possibility previously. At a time when even mainstream software engineering conferences start f- turing papers with both testing and proving in their titles, we are clearly on the verge of a new age where testing and proving are not competing but ?nally accepted as complementary techniques. Albeit, we are not quite there yet, and so the TAP conferences aim to provide a forum for researchers working on the converging topics and to raise general awareness of this convergence."

Contributor Bio:  Fraser, Gordon Gordon Fraser works at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland, where he is Editor of CERN Courier, a monthly magazine covering all aspects of particle physics. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in Science Communication at several universities.