Identification Methods And Conformance Testing

This paper places protocol test generation methods in the general context of identification approach. After a classification of identification based test generation methods, we show up how identification is used for protocol test generation and where existing methods already used for communication protocols can be linked to this classification. Identification methods being of high complexity, we suggest to take advantage of the system structure to improve the test generation and validation process. KEWORDS. Identification, Finite-State Machine, Test Generation, Test Validation, Distinguishing Sequence, W-method, UJOS.