书目名称 | Tests and Proofs | 副标题 | First International | 编辑 | Yuri Gurevich,Bertrand Meyer | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | To prove the correctness of a program is to demonstrate, through impeccable mathematical techniques, that it has no bugs. To test a program is to run it with the expectation of discovering bugs. These two paths to software reliability seem to diverge from the very start: if you have proved your program correct, it is fruitless to comb it for bugs; and if you are testing it, that surely must be a sign that you have given up on any hope to prove its correctness. Accordingly, proofs and tests have, since the onset of software engineering research, been pursued by distinct communities using different kinds of techniques and tools. Dijkstra’s famous pronouncement that tests can only show the presence of errors — in retrospect, perhaps one of the best advertisements one can imagine for testing, as if “only” finding bugs were not already a momentous achievement! — didn’t help make testing popular with provers, or proofs attractive to testers. And yet the development of both approaches leads to the discovery of common issues and to the realization that each may need the other. The emergence of model checking was one of the first signs that apparent contradiction may yield to complementarit | 出版日期 | Conference proceedings 2007 | 关键词 | Automat; Oracle; logic; model checking; programming; theorem proving; tools; verification | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73770-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-540-73769-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-540-73770-4Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349 | issn_series | 0302-9743 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 |
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