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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2004
Niels Jakob Rehof, Redmond, WA (US);
Anthony D. Andrews, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sriram K. Rajamani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Cambridge, GB;
Cédric Fournet, Cambridge, GB;
Niels Jakob Rehof, Redmond, WA (US);
Anthony D. Andrews, Sammamish, WA (US);
Sriram K. Rajamani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Cambridge, GB;
Cédric Fournet, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A distributed software system of communicating software components can be tested for undesirable behavior. A specification of a component can be substituted in place of the component when testing a model of the distributed software system. Thus, the system can be checked to see if it exhibits undesirable behavior without having code for all components of the system. Also, a component can be checked to see if it is in conformance with its specification. If models built with respective components and substituted specifications indicate that the system does not exhibit undesirable behavior, and the components conform to their specifications, then a system assembled from the components will not exhibit the undesirable behavior. Thus, collaborative testing can be achieved, even if no one entity has access to code for the entire distributed system.