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Testing Finitary Probabilistic Processes

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We provide both modal- and relational characterisations of may- and must-testing preorders for recursive CSP processes with divergence, featuring probabilistic as well as nondeterministic choice. May testing is characterised in terms of simulation, and must testing in terms of failure simulation. To this end we develop weak transitions between probabilistic processes, elaborate their topological properties, and express divergence in terms of partial distributions.

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Deng, Y., van Glabbeek, R., Hennessy, M., Morgan, C. (2009). Testing Finitary Probabilistic Processes. In: Bravetti, M., Zavattaro, G. (eds) CONCUR 2009 - Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5710. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04081-8_19

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