eprintid: 10058916 rev_number: 23 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/05/89/16 datestamp: 2018-10-25 09:03:38 lastmod: 2021-12-20 23:29:40 status_changed: 2018-10-25 09:03:38 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Harman, M title: We Need a Testability Transformation Semantics ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This paper (This paper is a brief outline of some of the content of the keynote by the author at the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2018) in Toulouse, France; 27th–29th June 2018.) briefly reviews Testability Transformation, its formal definition, and the open problem of constructing a set of formal test adequacy semantics to underpin the current practice of deploying transformations to help testing and verification activities. date: 2018 date_type: published publisher: Springer official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92970-5_1 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1591454 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92970-5_1 isbn_13: 978-3-319-92969-9 lyricists_name: Harman, Mark lyricists_id: MHARM36 actors_name: Novi, Maya actors_id: MNOVI52 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science publication: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND FORMAL METHODS, SEFM 2018 volume: 10886 place_of_pub: Cham, Switzerland pagerange: 3-17 pages: 15 event_title: 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM) Held as Part of Conference on Software Technologies - Applications and Foundations (STAF), 27–29 June 2018, Toulouse, France event_location: Toulouse, FRANCE event_dates: 25 June 2018 - 29 June 2018 institution: 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM) Held as Part of Conference on Software Technologies - Applications and Foundations (STAF) issn: 1611-3349 book_title: Software Engineering and Formal Methods editors_name: Johnsen, EB editors_name: Schaefer, I citation: Harman, M; (2018) We Need a Testability Transformation Semantics. In: Johnsen, EB and Schaefer, I, (eds.) Software Engineering and Formal Methods. (pp. pp. 3-17). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058916/7/Harman_We-Need-a-Testability-Transformation-Semantics.pdf