Testing of model-driven development applications

Marín, Beatriz; Gallardo, Carlos; Quiroga, Diego; Giachetti, Giovanni; Serral, Estefanía

doi:10.1007/s11219-016-9308-8

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“…Model-driven testing is a new paradigm in software testing that helps testers in automatic code generation from a given model. Similarly, model-based testing automates the generation and execution of test cases from a given model [58,59]. In [60], the authors proposed the MATeL model (mobile application testing language) that applies the concepts of both the model driven-approach and domain-specific modeling language (DSML).…”

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The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

Berihun,

Dongmo,

Van der Poll

2023

Computers

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Mobile applications are developed and released to the market every day. Due to the intense usage of mobile applications, their quality matters. End users’ rejection of mobile apps increases from time to time due to their low quality and lack of proper mobile testing. This indicates that the role of mobile application testing is crucial in the acceptance of a given software product. Test engineers use automation frameworks for testing their mobile applications. Automated testing brings several advantages to the development team. For example, automated checks are used for regression testing, fast execution of test scripts, and providing quick feedback for the development team. A systematic literature review has been used to identify and collect evidence on automated testing frameworks for mobile application testing. A total of 56 relevant research papers were identified that were published in prominent journals and conferences until February 2023. The results were summarized and tabulated to provide insights into the suitability of the existing automation testing framework for mobile application testing. We identified the major test concerns and test challenges in performing mobile automation testing. The results showed that the keyword-driven testing framework is the widely used approach, but recently, hybrid approaches have been adopted for mobile test automation. On the other hand, this review indicated that the existing frameworks need to be customized using reusable and domain-specific keywords to make them suitable for mobile application testing. Considering this, this study proposes an architecture, the mobile-based automation testing framework (MATF). In the future, to address the mobile application testing challenges, the authors will work on implementing the proposed framework (MATF).

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The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

Berihun,

Dongmo,

Van der Poll

2023

Computers

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“…Gutiérrez et al [10] introduce a systematic process based on the Model-Driven paradigm to automate the generation of functional system tests from functional requirements, defining a set of metamodels and transformations and a DSL. Marín et al [11] show a model-based testing technique that automatically generates abstract system tests from conceptual models used in Model-Driven Development (MDD) and a modelbased testing technique that automatically generates concrete system tests in Java and C#, reducing the testing effort in MDD projects environments. Elalloui et al [12], propose an improved version of a previous work where they implemented an algorithm that took as input user stories, and automatically generate UML sequence diagrams.…”

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Applying Model-Driven Web Engineering to the Testing Phase of the ADAGIO Project

Morales

Moreno-Leonardo

Olivero

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The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has been used in recent years to promote better results in the development of Web Applications, in the field that has been called Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE). One of the advantages of applying MDWE is that it offers a solution to reduce the cost of the tests without affecting their quality execution. This paper presents the application of a MDWE methodology (Navigational Development Techniques, NDT) that provides support for all the phases of the lifecycle of a software project development proposing transformations between these phases, to manage the test phase of a real-world case study named ADAGIO. This project, among other goals, proposes the development of a web application whose main objective is to offer researchers the possibility of integrating and consolidating heterogeneous data sources, showing a unified vision of them, allowing to simplify the search task in different repositories as well as the relationship between the sources found.

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“…The conceptual models are important and a fundamental part in software development, since they constitute the starting point for a good software product. Although there are tools that allow to automatically obtain abstract test cases from models [12], these tools use complex models that are not widely used in industry as UML is, and they do not clearly state which kind of test cases are generated under well-defined testing criteria. So that, the use of these existent MBT tools is difficult to achieve in industry.…”

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Automatic Generation of Test Cases from UML Models

Pérez

Marín

2018

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[Context] The growing demand for high-quality software has caused the industry to incorporate processes to enable them to comply with these standards, but increasing the cost of development. A strategy to reduce this cost is to incorporate quality evaluations from early stages of software development. A technique that facilitates this evaluation is the model-based testing, which allows to generate test cases at early phases using as input the conceptual models of the system. [Objective] In this paper, we introduce TCGen, a tool that enables the automatic generation of abstract test cases starting from UML conceptual models. [Method] The design and implementation of TCGen, a technique that applies different testing criteria to class diagrams and state transition diagrams to generates test cases, is presented as a model-based testing approach. To do that, TCGen uses UML models, which are widely used at industry and a set of algorithms that recognize the concepts in the models in order to generate abstract test cases. [Results] An exploratory experimental evaluation has been performed to compare the TCGen tool with traditional testing. [Conclusions] Even though the exploratory evaluation shows promising results, it is necessary to perform more empirical evaluations in order to generalize the results. Abstract (in Spanish): [Contexto] La creciente demanda de software de alta calidad ha provocado que la industria incorpore procesos para permitirles cumplir con estos estándares, pero aumentando el costo del desarrollo. Una estrategia para reducir este costo es incorporar evaluaciones de calidad desde las primeras etapas del desarrollo del software. Una técnica que facilita esta evaluación es la prueba basada en modelos, que permite generar casos de prueba en fases tempranas utilizando como entrada los modelos conceptuales del sistema. [Objetivo] En este artículo, presentamos TCGen, una herramienta que permite la generación automática de casos de pruebas abstractas a partir de modelos conceptuales UML. [Método] El diseño e implementación de TCGen, una técnica que aplica diferentes criterios de prueba a los diagramas de clases y diagramas de transición de estados para generar casos de prueba, se presenta como un enfoque de prueba basado en modelos. Para hacer eso, TCGen utiliza modelos UML, que son ampliamente utilizados en la industria y un conjunto de algoritmos que reconocen los conceptos en los modelos para generar casos de prueba abstractos. [Resultados] Se realizó una evaluación experimental exploratoria para comparar la herramienta TCGen con las pruebas tradicionales. [Conclusiones] Aunque la evaluación exploratoria muestra resultados prometedores, es necesario realizar más evaluaciones empíricas para generalizar los resultados.

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Testing of model-driven development applications

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

The Applicability of Automated Testing Frameworks for Mobile Application Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

Applying Model-Driven Web Engineering to the Testing Phase of the ADAGIO Project

Automatic Generation of Test Cases from UML Models

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