A test model for graph database applications: an MDA-based approach

Abstract

NoSQL databases have given rise to new testing challenges due to the fact that they use data models and access modes to the data that differ from the relational databases. Testing relational database applications has attracted the interest of many researchers; but this is still not the case with NoSQL database applications. The approach presented in this paper defines a test model for graph database applications that takes into account the data model of this technology and the system specification. To automate the derivation of the test cases and the evaluation of their adequacy we propose a framework that places model-based testing into the model-driven architecture context.

Automated reasoning for attributed graph properties

“…Moreover, we aim at applying, evaluating, and optimizing our approach further w.r.t. other application scenarios such as test generation for the graph database domain [7], but also to other domains such as model-driven engineering, where our approach can be used, e.g., to generate test models for model transformations [5,19,30]. We also aim at generalizing our approach to more expressive graph properties able to encode, e.g., path-related properties [41,40,29].…”