Model-Based Software Testing and Analysis with C#

Abstract

This book teaches model-based analysis and model-based testing, with important new ways to write and analyze software specifications and designs, generate test cases, and check the results of test runs. These methods increase the automation in each of these steps, making them more timely, more thorough, and more effective. Using a familiar programming language, testers and analysts will learn to write models that describe how a program is supposed to behave. The authors work through several realistic case studies in depth and detail, using a toolkit built on the C# language and the .NET framework. Readers can also apply the methods in analyzing and testing systems in many other languages and frameworks. Intended for professional software developers including testers, and for university students, this book is suitable for courses on software engineering, testing, specification, or applications of formal methods.

Model-based Testing of the Java Network API

“…Instead of designing individual test cases, test models describe entire sets of possible tests. More test tools than can be described here exist, based on state machines [1,8,17] or constraint specifications [7,13]. Test models (as well as unit tests) are usually designed based on the specification [17].…”

“…Tools derive test sequences from a model that specifies possible test executions and expected results [1,7,8,13,17]. We use Modbat [1] because it offers an embedded domain-specific language [19] that combines extended finite-state machines [6] with low-level monitoring code written in Scala [14].…”

Composition of Model Programs

“…The most recent work related to model programs where composition is discussed from a practical perspective is the forthcoming textbook [11].…”

“…NModel is in the process of becoming an open source project and is the software support for the forthcoming textbook [11] that discusses the use of model programs as a practical modeling technique. While this paper provides the foundations of model program composition, the textbook shows practical techniques and applications, with an emphasis on composition as a method of layering system behavior into independent features.…”

State Isomorphism in Model Programs with Abstract Data Structures

“…Taking into account practical experience with Spec Explorer and user feedback, we can characterize a typical usage scenario of model programs as a three step process: describe, analyze and test [14].…”