@inproceedings{deploy288, booktitle = {4th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing}, month = {March}, title = {Towards Search-based Testing for Event-B Models}, author = {Alin Stefanescu and Florentin Ipate and Raluca Lefticaru and Cristina Tudose}, year = {2011}, pages = {194--197}, keywords = {Abstract state machines; Event-B; model-based testing; search-based software testing}, url = {http://deploy-eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/288/}, abstract = {This position paper discusses the challenges and opportunities of applying search-based techniques to a formal environment of abstract state machines defined using a language called Event-B. Event-B is based on a formal abstract machine notation that has a mature tool support and gets continuous feedback from industry. Although search-based techniques recently developed for extended finite state machines may be adapted to this context, new challenges such as implicit states, non-determinism, non-numerical datatypes and hierarchical models are still to be solved for test data generation for Event-B models.} }