Affiliations: Dpto. Sistemas Informáticos y
Computación. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 28040 Madrid.
Spain. llana@sip.ucm.es, mn@sip.ucm.es
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Dpto. Sistemas
Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria. 28040 Madrid. Spain
Abstract: The language RTPA, Real Time Process Algebra, has been created to
enable rigorous treatment of knowledge representation and manipulation in terms
of to be I to have / to do in a formal and coherent framework. This language
has been designed to cope with the three dimensions involved in the problem of
software specification: (i) mathematical operations, (ii) event/process timing,
and (iii) memory manipulation. In this paper we focus on giving a testing
semantics to the second dimension: Process timing dimension. First, we will
provide a SOS like operational semantics for the process relations of RTPA.
Next, we will define what a test is and we will introduce a relation based on
which tests are passed by processes. Finally, we will obtain an operational
characterization that can be used as a first step to define a denotational
sematics sound and complete with respect the testing semantics.
Keywords: RTPA, real time process algebra, testing semantics
