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Title:	Protocol conformance test generation using circular UIO with overlapping
Author:	Patchipala, Sesharao
View Online:	njit-etd1993-131 (viii, 69 pages ~ 1.2 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Computer and Information Science
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Computer and Information Science
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Chao, Daniel Y. (Committee chair) Wang, David T. (Committee member) Hung, Daochuan (Committee member)
Date:	1993-01
Keywords:	Computer network protocols -- Data processing Data transmission -- Testing
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	The purpose of the protocol conformance testing is to ensure that protocol implementations are consistent with their specifications. After the U-method was introduced, several test methods based on the Unique Input/Output (UI0) sequences which were the main concept in the U-method have been proposed, namely, the RCP-method, MUIO-method, MUIO with overlapping method, B-method, C-method. A good test sequence must be short and have wide fault coverage. By comparing the test sequences generated by the above test methods based on experimental results, reveals that the test sequences by the MUIO with overlapping method are the worst in quality but their lengths are the shortest in general. In this paper, code is implemented for UI0 sequences and a new method, the C-UIO with overlapping method which combines the merits of both methods, is presented and compared with other methods based on the experimental results.