Synthesizing Test Models from Test Cases

Jääskeläinen, Antti; Kervinen, Antti; Katara, Mika; Valmari, Antti; Virtanen, Heikki

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01702-5_18

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“…Moreover, semi‐automatic generation of test models from existing test assets, such as conventional test cases, needs further elaboration (see, e.g. an approach by Jääskeläinen et al 37). Another issue is incremental testing, i.e.…”

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Obstacles and opportunities in deploying model‐based GUI testing of mobile software: a survey

Janicki¹,

Katara

Pääkkönen

2011

Software Testing Verif & Rel

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Model-based testing has not been widely deployed in industry yet. There seem to be both technical and non-technical reasons for this situation. A survey among mobile software testing professions in Finland was conducted that aimed at investigating possible obstacles and opportunities towards wider deployment of this technology. This paper discusses the results and provides conclusions that indicate that at least in this context, there is much interest among practitioners towards the technology. However, more research is needed to make model creation and maintenance as easy as possible. In addition, metrics should be developed that can be used to report test results in the same manner as using existing testing techniques, enabling comparison between different approaches. Special emphasis should also be placed on enabling quick bug localization. Furthermore, it seems that successful pilot projects are a key to wider industrial adoption. Based on the survey findings, an agenda for the future model-based testing research is outlined.

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Obstacles and opportunities in deploying model‐based GUI testing of mobile software: a survey

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Katara

Pääkkönen

2011

Software Testing Verif & Rel

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“…The model synthesis process proposed in [9] is based on pre-existing test cases that are linear sequences of automatically executable steps (keywords), and consists of five phases: First, keywords used in test cases are identified and classified. Second, part of the information in the test cases (such as input data) is separated into variables.…”

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“…Although this method works, it relies on a significant amount of manual effort. In particular, the separation of variables requires significant work and skill [9]. Also, the tester has to confirm the merges between the test cases manually, as the state sequence method may generate false positives [9].…”

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“…Models can be generated from different artefacts of the software process, or the artefacts used directly as test models. Suitable candidates include specifications [10] and pre-existing test cases [9,14]. Alternatively, models can be extracted from an existing product, either the source code [4,13,15], the structure and functionality of the graphical user interface (GUI) [1,6,11,12], or other known behaviour [7,8].…”

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Towards Model Construction Based on Test Cases and GUI Extraction

Jääskeläinen

2016

Testing Software and Systems

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“…From these test cases the set of paths has been derived. This approach, much like [11], might lead to the requirements loss since test cases are usually written by SWQA which might misinterpret or omit important information. Such an application also requires a lot of refactoring of already existing automation code.…”

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A process to increase the model quality in the context of model-based testing

Entin

Winder

Zhang

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW)

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In the past years model-based testing (MBT) has become a widely-used approach to the test automation in the industrial context. Until now the application of MBT has been limited to the software quality engineers with very good modelling skills. In order to guarantee the completeness of a model and to increase its precision there is a need to allow the usage of the approach by other project stakeholders such as requirements engineers as well as software quality engineers with a limited modelling experience. In this contribution we share the challenges discovered during the several years of the application of a certain MBT technique in a SCRUM project with particular regard to the definition of precise and complete models. A process which involves the entire software project team into the model definition starting at the very early stages of product development is presented along with its concrete implementation. First experiences with the application of the process in a particular project are presented. 1

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Synthesizing Test Models from Test Cases

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Obstacles and opportunities in deploying model‐based GUI testing of mobile software: a survey

Obstacles and opportunities in deploying model‐based GUI testing of mobile software: a survey

Towards Model Construction Based on Test Cases and GUI Extraction

A process to increase the model quality in the context of model-based testing

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