A Radical Approach for Goal-Oriented Testing

Taking testing goals into account, this article lays forth a methodology for automating the testing of component-based and embedded systems. We work with the component-based systems from communication point of view. Hence, only the outward behaviour of the components at the contact locations can be seen. We optimise the number of created test sequences for practicality by including test purposes into a general FSM-based technique for test creation. These approaches have been broadly since decades effectively used for evaluating both hardware and software including protocols and communication systems