Validating a specification associated with a software application and/or a hardware

摘要

System and method for validating a specification associated with a software application and/or a hardware is disclosed. The specification comprising expected behavior requirements specified in a specification language and the semantics in the tabular notation is received. In order to validate the specification, a string may be identified for the specification. The string may indicate characters conforming to the specification language. Upon identifying the string, a token may be generated using the string. The token may be a binary representation of the string. The token may be arranged into a data structure. The specification is checked to conform to the specification language. Two or more specifications specified in the specification language are merged. A test case is generated from the validated specification. The expected behavior with the actual behavior of the specification is validated.

主权项

1. A method for validating a specification associated with a software application and/or a hardware, the method comprising:
receiving, by a processor, the specification comprising expected behaviour requirements specified in a specification language and semantics in a tabular notation, wherein the expected behaviour requirements indicate a behaviour expected from the software application and/or the hardware; identifying, by the processor, a string comprising one or more characters from the specification, wherein the string indicates the one or more characters conforming to the specification language; generating, by the processor, a token using the string, wherein the token is a binary representation of the string; arranging, by the processor, the token into a data structure, wherein the data structure is indicative of an actual behaviour of the software application and/or the hardware; and checking, by the processor, the specification conforming to the specification language, wherein the specification is checked in order to generate a validated specification.