Model-Based Testing

Robert Binder’s Testing Object-Oriented Systems book sits permanenly on my desk. At over 1500 pages long, it is almost a never-ending read, but from time to time I pause to read a few choice chapters.

Binder also wrote about the compliance testing of Microsoft’s court-ordered publication of its Windows client-server protocols in 2012. An interesting fact from the article is that instead of having to test software against documentation, Microsoft had to do the reverse because the code was already published and had to remain used as the gold standard. Under scrutiny and tight deadlines, they managed to check that 60,000 pages of documentation matched the protocols exactly, all thanks to model-based testing (MBT).

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