In a model-based testing approach as well as for the verification of
properties, B models provide an interesting solution. However, for industrial
applications, the size of their state space often makes them hard to handle. To
reduce the amount of states, an abstraction function can be used, often
combining state variable elimination and domain abstractions of the remaining
variables. This paper complements previous results, based on domain abstraction
for test generation, by adding a preliminary syntactic abstraction phase, based
on variable elimination. We define a syntactic transformation that suppresses
some variables from a B event model, in addition to a method that chooses
relevant variables according to a test purpose. We propose two methods to
compute an abstraction A of an initial model M. The first one computes A as a
simulation of M, and the second one computes A as a bisimulation of M. The
abstraction process produces a finite state system. We apply this abstraction
computation to a Model Based Testing process.Comment: Tests and Proofs 2010, Malaga : Spain (2010
