AD2US: an automated approach to generating usage scenarios from UML activity diagrams

Chandler, Robert C.; Lam, Chiou Peng; Li, H.

doi:10.1109/apsec.2005.25

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“…The scalability of the approach is evident from the fact that requirements were picked up from a wide range of applications of varying complexities from a simple Air Port Management System, Car Race Simulator, Luggage Control Software, University Management System, Fighter Plane Control System, Blood Bank, Automatic Production Environment, Highway Intersection System, Avionics System, all the way to a Public Library Information System. The approach and the tool are successfully able to handle events ranging from 20,25,29,30,30,31,34,35,40, to 43. These events were related with event operators ranging from 4,6,7,8,10,12,13, to 14.…”

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“…In [39], the authors have developed an automated tool called TSGAD (Test Scenarios Generator for Activity Diagrams), which uses adaptive agents to directly generate test scenarios. Work in [40] introduced an approach that capture, store and output, usage scenarios that have been automatically derived from UML activity diagrams. In [41], the authors have used anti-ant like agents to directly generate test threads from the UML artifacts.…”

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“…In [34], authors have described the Finite State Machine (FSM) based test case generation, the fault models for test case generation, fault coverage, and three methods for test case generation using FSMs. Several approaches have used activity diagrams [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. In [35], the authors have generated test cases based on activity path coverage criterion to cover faults like synchronization faults and faults in a loop.…”

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A Novel Approach for Deriving Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Events

Singh¹,

Sabharwal²,

Gupta³

2012

Journal of Information Processing Systems

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Abstract-Safety critical systems, real time systems, and event-based systems have a complex set of events and their own interdependency, which makes them difficult to test ma Safety critic Safety critical systems, real time systems, and event-based systems have a complex set of events and their own interdependency, which makes them difficult to test manually. In order to cut down on costs, save time, and increase reliability, the model based testing approach is the best solution. Such an approach does not require applications or codes prior to generating test cases, so it leads to the early detection of faults, which helps in reducing the development time. Several model-based testing approaches have used different UML models but very few works have been reported to show the generation of test cases that use events. Test cases that use events are an apt choice for these types of systems. However, these works have considered events that happen at a user interface level in a system while other events that happen in a system are not considered. Such works have limited applications in testing the GUI of a system. In this paper, a novel model-based testing approach is presented using business events, state events, and control events that have been captured directly from requirement specifications. The proposed approach documents events in event templates and then builds an event-flow model and a fault model for a system. Test coverage criterion and an algorithm are designed using these models to generate event sequence based test scenarios and test cases. Unlike other event based approaches, our approach is able to detect the proposed faults in a system. A prototype tool is developed to automate and evaluate the applicability of the entire process. Results have shown that the proposed approach and supportive tool is able to successfully derive test scenarios and test cases from the requirement specifications of safety critical systems, real time systems, and event based systems

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A Novel Approach for Deriving Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Events

Singh¹,

Sabharwal²,

Gupta³

2012

Journal of Information Processing Systems

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“…"An Automated Approach to Generating Usage Scenarios from UML Activity Diagrams," by Chandler, R., Lam, C. P., Li, H., [5] defines the concept of UML activity diagram is a notation suitable for modeling a concurrent system in which multiple objects interact with each other. This paper proposes a method to generate test cases from UML activity diagrams that minimizes the number of test cases generated while deriving all practically useful test cases.…”

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“…In this section, we describes the representative researcher survey [3][4][5] of test cases generation based on UML activity diagrams. "Generating Test Cases from UML Activity Diagram based on Gray-Box Method," by Wang.…”

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A Novel Approach for Automated Test Path Generation using TABU Search Algorithm

Shanthi¹,

Mohankumar²

2012

IJCA

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Software testing is the last phase of the development cycle. The important role in software development is software Testing. In today's software industry, the design of software tests is mostly based on the tester's expertise, while test automation tools are limited to execution of preplanned tests only. Testing effort can be classified into three parts, they are test case generation, test execution and test evaluation. This paper presents a novel approach to generate the automated test paths. Due to the delay in the development of software, testing has to be done in a short time. This led to automation of testing because its efficiency and also requires less man power. In this proposed approach, by using one of the most standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity Diagram, construct the Activity Dependency table(ADT), then generate the Test paths. Then the test path are prioritized by using the Tabu search algorithm. The prioritized test path can be used in system testing, regressing testing and integration testing. Then also form the Cyclomatic diagram to check the efficiency of the test scenario.

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Dealing with Concurrent Regions during Scenario Generation from Activity Diagrams

Chandler

Lam

Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering

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Scenarios are a popular focus for the acquisition and validation of system requirements and in the generation of system-based test-cases. However, generating scenarios manually is a tedious process, which may introduce errors or produce incomplete scenario sets. This paper discusses an approach to scenario capture, in support of requirements engineering that can then be used for test-scenario capture and test-case generation. The approach has been automated successfully, producing usage-scenarios from UML (Unified Modelling Language) Activity Diagrams without the need for manual intervention. The paper walks through the approach - with a specific focus on the processing of concurrent regions - and compares the results with other approaches applied to the same UML activity model

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AD2US: an automated approach to generating usage scenarios from UML activity diagrams

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

A Novel Approach for Deriving Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Events

A Novel Approach for Deriving Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Events

A Novel Approach for Automated Test Path Generation using TABU Search Algorithm

Dealing with Concurrent Regions during Scenario Generation from Activity Diagrams

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