Specification-based testing for real-time avionic systems

The paper describes the early stages of work towards the development of specification based testing techniques for real time distributed systems. This work has taken place in the context of the aerospace industry, where the complexity and the criticality of avionic systems makes them a challenge to develop. This paper briefly presents the DoRIs/ADL notation and its proof theoretic semantics, and sketches the techniques used to represent test cases for single activities. We look forward to the issues dominating future work on the automatic generation of tests from DoRIs/ADL models.