REDUCING THE NUMBER OF SYNCHRONIZATION OPERATIONS IN PROTOCOL CONFORMANCE TESTING

Conformance testing is to see if the protocol implementation conforms to its specification. A lot of test sequences have been developed for testing centers. Yet directly applying these test sequences to the sim ple testing system in laboratories suffers from the frequently-occurre d synchronization problems. This paper proposes a new technique to dis connect a test sequence into segments based on their functions, and re connects them into a nea test sequence that simulates these functions yet suffers less from the synchronization problems.