This thesis addresses the problem of conformance testing of communication
protocol implementations. Test sequence generation techniques for finite state machines (FSM) have been developed to solve the problem of high costs of an exhaustive test. These techniques also guarantee a complete
coverage of an implementation in terms of state transitions and output functions, and therefore provide a sound test of the implementation under test. In this thesis, we have modified and applied three test sequence generation
techniques on the class 0 transport protocol. A local tester and executable test sequences for the ISO class 0 transport protocol have been developed on a portable protocol tester to demonstrate the practicality of the test methods and test methodologies. The local test is achieved by an upper tester residing on top of the implementation under test (IUT) and a lower tester residing at the bottom of the IUT. Tests are designed based on the state diagram of an IUT. Some methodologies of parameter variations have also been used to test primitive parameters of the implementation. Some problems encountered during the implementation of the testers and how they are resolved are also discussed in the thesis. / Science, Faculty of / Computer Science, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/26427 |
| Date | January 1987 |
| Creators | Kou, Tian |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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