Automatic test case generation from UML communication diagrams

Samuel, Philip; Mall, Rajib; Kanth, Pratyush

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2006.04.001

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“…Still, this connection is not considered in detail as a collective concept in our research activities. On the other hand, an abundance of software technologies, models and frameworks have been developed to ease the transition of software development phases, to bridge the gap between them, and to align the intentions and activities therein, for example, between requirements and software architecture/design ( [Kop and Mayr 1998;Amyot and Mussbacher 2001;Hall et al 2002]), software architecture/design and implementation ( [Murphy et al 2001;Elrad et al 2002;Aldrich et al 2002]), and software architecture/design and testing ([Muccini et al 2004;Samuel et al 2007]). …”

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A taxonomy for requirements engineering and software test alignment

Unterkalmsteiner

Feldt

Gorschek

2014

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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Requirements Engineering and Software Testing are mature areas and have seen a lot of research. Nevertheless, their interactions have been sparsely explored beyond the concept of traceability. To fill this gap we propose a definition of requirements engineering and software test (REST) alignment, a taxonomy that characterizes the methods linking the respective areas, and a process to assess alignment. The taxonomy can support researchers to identify new opportunities for investigation, as well as practitioners to compare alignment methods and evaluate alignment, or lack thereof. We constructed the REST taxonomy by analyzing alignment methods published in literature, iteratively validating the emerging dimensions. The resulting concept of an information dyad characterizes the exchange of information required for any alignment to take place. We demonstrate use of the taxonomy by applying it on five in-depth cases and illustrate angles of analysis on a set of thirteen alignment methods. In addition we developed an assessment framework (REST-bench), applied it in an industrial assessment, and showed that it, with a low effort, can identify opportunities to improve REST alignment. Although we expect that the taxonomy can be further refined, we believe that the information dyad is a valid and useful construct to understand alignment.

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Section: The Need For Alignmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A taxonomy for requirements engineering and software test alignment

Unterkalmsteiner

Feldt

Gorschek

2014

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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“…This method detects the errors of implementation by performing sequences of actions; in order to determine whether system behaviours are those initially specified. This type of test was developed for the validation of communication protocols [8]. Conformity tests have three steps: (1) the derivation of tests scenarios which aims to generate abstract test scenarios on the basis of the protocol specification, (2) allows implementation tests scenarios in order to make them executables for a particular implementation, and (3) apply the implemented tests scenarios in order to determine the conformity verdict.…”

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A generation method of test scenarios based on models: application to the ERTMS/ETCS system

Jabri¹,

Kouris²,

Lemaire³

et al. 2009

Safety and Security Engineering III

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The railroads must be able to offer high-quality services for both the high-speed trains and the conventional ones. So, these objectives imply a search for a harmonization of the European rail network. For this purpose, the European Union set up a European management system of the rail traffic -the ERTMS system (European Rail Traffic Management System) -to ensure, in full safety, trains circulations on different European networks. It is composed of the controlcommand system, named ETCS (European Train System Control), and the GSM-R, the new radio system for voice and data communication. As the full deployment of this system will be long and expensive, evolutions will be necessary and will raise other technological challenges. This paper presents methods, models, and tools dedicated to the generation of tests scenarios for the validation of ERTMS components based on functional requirements.

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“…It is very difficult to reproduce the runtime problem. In order to strengthen the organization, RTS test cases are generated based on the software design, whereby, RTS failures can be reduced [7]. There is no systematic activity when the automation should start and end.…”

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“…The RTS automated testing activities can do their development simultaneously with RTS software development. The early development of test cases may reduce more bugs in product [7]. The delivery of the automated test suite should be done before the test execution phase so that the deliverables from the automation effort can be utilized for the current release of the RTS application.…”

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Test Case Generation for Real-Time System Software Using Specification Diagram

Padmanabhan¹,

Mani²

2017

IJIES

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Software testing of the real-time system (RTS) software based on specification diagram has a necessary sequence of parallel events for generation of test cases. In the model-based test case generation for RTS both automated and manual is limited in techniques as some situations inadvertently forget the simulation events. Many meta-heuristic techniques have solved the problem in RTS test cases generation. However, the technique seems to have much more focus on the optimum solution. This paper presents a methodology based on timed input-output event of specification diagram that supports a wide range of possible test cases for RTS application software. The proposed method applies for automated test case generation tool aims at validating the executable code and covers the systems behaviours in an optimized manner. The methodology is tested with three different RTS software such as client-server based real-time transaction, embedded based real-time sequence and sensor based real -time events. This proposed approach, based on the executable test cases, dynamically increases the productivity of the real-time systems.

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Automatic test case generation from UML communication diagrams

Cited by 41 publications

References 23 publications

A taxonomy for requirements engineering and software test alignment

A taxonomy for requirements engineering and software test alignment

A generation method of test scenarios based on models: application to the ERTMS/ETCS system

Test Case Generation for Real-Time System Software Using Specification Diagram

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