TY - CHAP SP - 165 T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science A1 - Boreale, Michele A1 - De Nicola, Rocco A1 - Pugliese, Rosario PB - Springer Y1 - 1999/// ED - Thomas, Wolfgang M1 - 1578 N2 - Asynchronous communication mechanisms are usually a basic ingredient of distributed systems and protocols. For these systems, asynchronous may-based testing seems to be exactly what is needed to capture safety and certain security properties. We study may testing equivalence focusing on the asynchronous versions of CCS and ?-calculus. We start from an operational testing preorder and provide finitary and fully abstract trace-based interpretations for it, together with complete inequational axiomatizations. The results throw light on the differences between synchronous and asynchronous systems and on the weaker testing power of asynchronous observations. SN - 3-540-65719-3 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49019-1_12 AV - none TI - A Theory of "May" Testing for Asynchronous Languages EP - 179 T2 - Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS 1999) ID - eprints341 ER -