Testing of Communicating Systems 17th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference, TestCom 2005, Montreal, Canada, May 31 - June 2, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Communicating Systems, TestCom 2005, held in Montreal, Canada in May/June 2005.
The 24 revised full papers presented together with the extended abstract of a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from initially 62 submissions. The papers address all current issues in testing communicating systems, ranging from classical telecommunication issues to general software testing.

The Epistemology of Validation and Verification Testing.- Passive Testing – A Constrained Invariant Checking Approach.- Dependence Testing: Extending Data Flow Testing with Control Dependence.- Comparing Bug Finding Tools with Reviews and Tests.- Cross-Language Functional Testing for Middleware.- Using Anti-Ant-like Agents to Generate Test Threads from the UML Diagrams.- Action Refinement in Conformance Testing.- Multiplexing of Partially Ordered Events.- Testing Communicating Systems: a Model, a Methodology, and a Tool.- Coping with Nondeterminism in Network Protocol Testing.- Eliminating Redundant Tests in a Checking Sequence.- On FSM-Based Fault Diagnosis.- State Identification Problems for Timed Automata.- Timing Fault Models for Systems with Multiple Timers.- An Expressive and Implementable Formal Framework for Testing Real-Time Systems.- Firewall Conformance Testing.- Test Generation for Interaction Detection in Feature-Rich Communication Systems.- Fault Detection of Hierarchical Networks with Probabilistic Testing Algorithms.- Detecting Trapdoors in Smart Cards Using Timing and Power Analysis.- From U2TP Models to Executable Tests with TTCN-3 - An Approach to Model Driven Testing -.- Using TTCN-3 for Testing Platform Independent Models.- Some Lessons from an Experiment Using TTCN-3 for the RIPng Testing.- A Model-Based Approach for Robustness Testing.- Content-Level Conformance Testing: An Information Mapping Case Study.- Quiescence Management Improves Interoperability Testing.