A prolific approach for automated generation of test cases from informal requirements

Chatterjee, R. N.; Johari, Kalpana

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“…Most of the studies [24], [25], [27]- [29], [32], [33] use natural language requirements as the input for their test case generation. At beginning phase of the system development, requirements are documented in natural language while the natural language's requirements may be ambiguous, incomplete and inconsistent.…”

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Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

Mustafa¹,

Kadir²,

Ibrahim³

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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The overall aim of software testing is to deliver the error-free and high-quality software products to the end users. The testing process ensures that a software is aligned with the user specification and requirements. In software testing process, there are many challenging tasks however test case generation process is considered as the most challenging one. The quality of the generated test cases has a significant impact on efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process. In order to improve the quality of a developed software, the test cases should be able to achieve maximum adequacy in the testing and requirements' coverage. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of the prominent requirement-based test case generation approaches. Five evaluation criteria namely, inputs for test case generation, transformation techniques, coverage criteria, time and tool's support are defined to systematically compare the approaches. The results of the evaluation are used to identify the gap in the current approaches and research opportunities in requirements-based test case's generation.

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“…1 shows the generic process of test case generation from natural language requirements. It is a summarization of approaches [24]- [33], and a brief description of steps is mention below:…”

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Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

Mustafa¹,

Kadir²,

Ibrahim³

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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“…It exists many other proposals based on requirements, some others on conditions, restrictions, or states. These elements could be captured using Use Cases, formal languages, state machines, or workflow diagrams that are the input of the approach developed by Chatterjee and Johari (Chatterjee & Johari, 2010). They propose an approach to derive test cases from Use Cases, as well as (Bouquet et al, 2008).…”

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User acceptance test for software development in the agricultural domain using natural language processing

Antonelli

Camilleri

Torres

et al. 2023

Journal of Decision Systems

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Software test case design is one of the most challenging activities since many actors with different backgrounds must cover most of the user's needs and expectations. In the agricultural domain tasks can be done in very different ways since practices vary worldwide. Thus, in this context, it is very hard to design test cases to validate requested functionality that automatizes some farm tasks. This paper proposes an approach to make the testing step easier, designing User Acceptance Tests (UATs) from requirements captured through scenarios. The scenarios capture the knowledge of different stakeholders (farmers) and using natural language processing tools, the approach proposed to consolidate the set of scenarios in a consistent and coherent base of knowledge organised in a tree, from where the design of test cases is extracted using the Task/Method model, a tool from the Artificial Intelligence.

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“…And these elements are used as the input of the approach. Chatterjee and Johari (2010) propose an approach to derive test cases from use cases, as well as (Bouquet et al , 2008). Although they analyzes the alternatives in the flow of actions, they also analyze the preconditions stated in the use cases, thus they finally rely on a state machine.…”

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AGUTER a platform for automated generation of user acceptance tests from requirements specifications

Antonelli

Camilleri

Torres

et al. 2021

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PurposeThis article proposes a strategy to make the testing step easier, generating user acceptance tests (UATs) in an automatic way from requirements artifacts.Design/methodology/approachThis strategy is based on two modeling frameworks: scenarios and task/method paradigm. Scenarios are a requirement artifact used to describe business processes and requirements, and task/method paradigm is a modeling paradigm coming from the artificial intelligence field. The proposed strategy is composed of four steps. In the first step, scenarios are described through a semantic wiki website. Then scenarios are automatically translated into a task/method model (step two). In the third step, the task/method model obtained in step two is executed in order to produce and store all possible achievements of tasks and thus scenarios. The stored achievements are saved in a data structure called execution tree (ET). Finally, from this ET (step four), the UATs are generated.FindingsThe feasibility of this strategy is shown through a case study coming from the agriculture production systems field.Originality/valueGenerally, test design approaches deal with a small number of variables describing one specific situation where a decision table or workflow is used to design tests. The proposed approach can deal with many variables because the authors rely on scenarios that can be composed in order to obtain a tree with all the testing paths that can arise from their description.

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A prolific approach for automated generation of test cases from informal requirements

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

User acceptance test for software development in the agricultural domain using natural language processing

AGUTER a platform for automated generation of user acceptance tests from requirements specifications

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