Invariants and state in testing and formal methods.

Logical formulas called invariants are a staple of formal methods for program analysis. Persistent-state variables appear in these formulas playing their proper intuitive role, which is somewhere between inputs and internal variables. In software testing theory, on the contrary, state is not usually...

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Published in:Software engineering notes. 31, 1 (2006).
Main Author: Hamlet, Dick
Format: Article
Language:English
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