This thesis discusses the problems of the conventional ISO 9646 methodology for OSI conformance testing, and proposes a new methodology based on trace analysis. In the proposed methodology, a trace analyzer is used to determine whether the observed behavior of the implementation under test is valid or invalid. This simplifies test cases dramatically, since they now need only specify the expected behavior of the IUT; unexpected behavior is checked by the trace analyzer. Test suites become correspondingly smaller. Because of this reduction in size and complexity, errors in test suites can be found and corrected far more easily. As a result, the reliability and the usefulness of the conformance testing process are greatly enhanced.
In order to apply the proposed methodology, trace analyzers are needed. Existing trace analyzers are examined, and found to be unsuitable for OSI conformance testing. A family of new trace analysis algorithms is presented and proved.
To verify the feasibility of the proposed methodology, and to demonstrate
its benefits, it is applied to a particular protocol, the LAPB protocol specified by ISO 7776. The design and implementation of a trace analyzer
for LAPB are described. The conventional ISO 8882-2 test suite for LAPB, when rewritten to specify only the expected behavior of the IUT, is found to be more than an order of magnitude smaller. / Science, Faculty of / Computer Science, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/29343 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Wvong, Russil |
| 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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