Making Model-Based Testing More Agile: A Use Case Driven Approach

Abstract

Abstract. We address the problem of misalignment of artifacts developed in agile software development projects and those required by model-based test generation tools. Our solution is domain specific and relies on the existence of domain experts to design the test models. The testers interface the test generation systems with use cases that are converted into sequences of so called action words corresponding to user events at a high level of abstraction. To support this scheme, we introduce a coverage language and an algorithm for automatic test generation.

Model-Based Testing Service on the Web

“…On the other hand, it seems especially important to provide easy-to-use tools and services that do not place an additional burden, such as that of test modeling, on the project personnel. We have identified a minimum of three modes [11] to be supported in agile processes: smoke testing should be performed in each continuous integration cycle; user stories can be tested in a usecase testing mode; and there should be a bug hunting mode, whose only purpose is to support finding defects efficiently in long test runs.…”

“…Currently, we have implemented three heuristics which allow us to experiment with the tools: a purely random heuristics that can be used in bug hunting mode, and two heuristics based on game-theory [11] to be used in the use case testing mode: a single thread and a two thread version. The difference between the two is that the latter continues to search an optimal path to a state fulfilling the coverage requirement, while the other thread waits for a return value from the client executing a keyword.…”

“…If the requirement under construction if not well-formed, the requirement turns red and an error message is displayed. The coverage language is presented in more detail in [11].…”

“…The background of our approach has been introduced previously in [5,9,10,11]. In this paper, based on earlier work [12,13], the MBT service interface is presented in detail.…”

Creating a Test Model Library for GUI Testing of Smartphone Applications (Short Paper)

“…The background of our approach has been introduced previously in [6,7,8,9]. In this paper, based on [5], we concentrate on the test model library.…”