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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-007-08-0710</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">27814</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>D.2.1 - Requirements/Specifications</subject>
          <subject>D.2.5 - Testing and Debugging</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Test-Design through Abstraction - A Systematic Approach Based on the Refinement Calculus</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Aichernig</surname>
            <given-names>Bernhard K.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">aichernig@ist.tugraz.at</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Graz University of Technology, K., Austria</addr-line>
        <institution>Graz University of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">K.</addr-line>
        <country>Austria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Bernhard K. Aichernig (<email xlink:type="simple">aichernig@ist.tugraz.at</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2001</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2001</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>7</volume>
      <issue>8</issue>
      <fpage>710</fpage>
      <lpage>735</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/5B8957ED-8A82-534D-BB90-FDBB5DBEEE5E">5B8957ED-8A82-534D-BB90-FDBB5DBEEE5E</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/6996041">6996041</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Bernhard K. Aichernig</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>This article discusses the calculation of test-cases for interactive systems. A novel approach is presented that treats the problem of test-case synthesis as a formal abstraction problem. It is shown that test-cases can be viewed as formal contracts and that such test-cases are in fact abstractions of requirements specifications. The refinement calculus of Back and von Wright is used to formulate abstraction rules for calculating correct test-cases from a formal specification. The advantage of this abstraction approach is that simple input-output test-cases, as well as testing scenarios can be handled. Furthermore, different testing strategies like partition testing and mutation testing can be formulated in one theory.</p>
      </abstract>
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