A model driven approach toward business process test case generation

Yuan, Qiulu; Wu, Ji; Liu, Chao; Zhang, Li

doi:10.1109/wse.2008.4655394

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“…These intermediate structures are later used for generating test cases using different graph search methods. In most cases [29,38,58,33,53,40,48,57,43,45,55,62,60], Depth First Search (DFS) has been used for test case generation. However, in some studies [39,41,59,37], DFS has been used in combination with Breath First Search (BFS).…”

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“…The TSL test design is produced by mapping the activities and transitions of the AD to TSL partitions and choices, respectively. Yuan et al [58] used UML ADs for modeling business processes under test. They transformed the ADs representing business processes into abstract test cases (visualized as UML sequence diagrams) and then the abstract test cases into executable test scripts in TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation version 3).…”

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“…They transformed the ADs representing business processes into abstract test cases (visualized as UML sequence diagrams) and then the abstract test cases into executable test scripts in TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation version 3). Since the study uses ADs with sequence diagrams and executable test specifications, [58] has two entries in Table 5.…”

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“…However, 35 % (15) of the studies use a combination of several coverage criteria as shown in Table 7. Continued on next page [49] Simple path, activity/state/node, transition/edge Chen et al [65] Key path, interaction, activity/node/edge Vieira et al [64] Happy path, data Hettab et al [38] Basic path for non-concurrent activities, simple path for concurrent activities Yuan et al [58] Activity/state/node, transition/edge Sapna et al [50] Simple and all paths, activity/state/node, transition/edge Farooq et al [66] Interleaving node/edge, transition/edge, branch Samuel and Mall [35] All dependency path, predicate, boundary testing Fan et al [72] Activity/state/node, transition/edge, join and fork, branch Sapna et al [53] Key path, activity/state/node, transition/edge Boghdady et. at.…”

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Model-based testing using UML activity diagrams: A systematic mapping study

Ahmad

Iqbal

Ashraf

et al. 2019

Computer Science Review

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Context:The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for software modeling. UML models are often used to visualize, understand, and communicate the structure and behavior of a system. UML activity diagrams (ADs) are often used to elaborate and visualize individual use cases. Due to their higher level of abstraction and process-oriented perspective, UML ADs are also highly suitable for model-based test generation. In the last two decades, different researchers have used UML ADs for test generation. Despite the growing use of UML ADs for model-based testing, there are currently no comprehensive and unbiased studies on the topic. Objective: To present a comprehensive and unbiased overview of the state-of-the-art on model-based testing using UML ADs. Method: We review and structure the current body of knowledge on model-based testing using UML ADs by performing a systematic mapping study using well-known guidelines. We pose nine research questions, outline our selection criteria, and develop a classification scheme. Results: The results comprise 41 primary studies analyzed against nine research questions. We also highlight the current trends and research gaps in model-based testing using UML ADs and discuss some shortcomings for researchers and practitioners working in this area. The results show that the existing approaches on model-based testing using UML ADs tend to rely on intermediate formats and formalisms for model verification and test generation, employ a multitude of graph-based coverage criteria, and use graph search algorithms. Conclusion: We present a comprehensive overview of the existing approaches on model-based testing using UML ADs. We conclude that (1) UML ADs are not being used for non-functional testing, (2) only a few approaches have been validated against realistic, industrial case studies, (3) most approaches target very restricted application domains, and (4) there is currently a clear lack of holistic approaches for model-based testing using UML ADs.

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“…The study [34] proposed an approach for reducing the costs to test such applications, and how can semantic stubs enable the client test suite to be partitioned into subsets, some of which don't use to execute remote services. Model driven approach is presented in [35], this approach to generate executable test cases from the given express business processes.…”

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A Survey of Service Oriented Architecture Systems Testing

Shamsoddin-motlagh¹

2012

IJSEA

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Service oriented architecture (SOA) is one of the latest software architectures. This architecture is created in direction of the business requirements and removed the gap between softwares and businesses. The software testing is the rising cost of activities in development software. SOA has different specifications and features proportion of the other software architectures. First this paper reviews SOA testing challenges and existing solution(s) for those challenges. Then that reports a survey of recent research to SOA systems testing, that covers both functional and non-functional testing. Those are presented for different levels of functional testing, including unit, integration, and regression testing.

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Bootstrapping Automated Testing for RESTful Web Services

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Lei

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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Modern RESTful services expose RESTful APIs to integrate with diversified applications. Most RESTful API parameters are weakly typed, which greatly increases the possible input value space. This poses difficulties for automated testing tools to generate effective test cases to reveal web service defects related to parameter validation. We call this phenomenon the type collapse problem. To remedy this problem, we introduce FET (Format-encoded Type) techniques, including the FET, the FET lattice, and the FET inference to model fine-grained information for API parameters. Enhanced by FET techniques, automated testing tools can generate targeted test cases. We demonstrate Leif, a trace-driven fuzzing tool, as a proof-of-concept implementation of FET techniques. Experiment results on 27 commercial services show that FET inference precisely captures documented parameter definitions, which helps Leif to discover 11 new bugs and reduce $$72\% \sim 86\%$$ 72 % ∼ 86 % fuzzing time as compared to state-of-the-art fuzzers.

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A model driven approach toward business process test case generation

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Model-based testing using UML activity diagrams: A systematic mapping study

Model-based testing using UML activity diagrams: A systematic mapping study

A Survey of Service Oriented Architecture Systems Testing

Bootstrapping Automated Testing for RESTful Web Services

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