A Textual Domain-Specific Language Based on the UML Testing Profile

Iber, Johannes; Kajtazovic, Nermin; Macher, Georg; Höller, Andrea; Rauter, Tobias; Kreiner, Christian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27869-8_9

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“…Iber et al present an approach, which use the interplay of a DSL and UTP. 14 Even though the enabling artifacts of our approach and the one by Iber et al are similar: formal representation of the system, domain specific language for the test case definition, and a transformation to generate the real test scripts, the two works target different applications and use cases. In Iber et al, 14 the authors' focus is on the definition of a textual DSL to overcome the limitations of the UML Testing Profile defined as "too broad in order to solve specific problems."…”

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“…Other approaches proposing the use of UTP for specifying test cases for both static (structural) and dynamic (behavioral) aspects of software systems are those in previous studies. 14,15 Another approach using UTP while not applying it on the railway domain is the one by Bagnato et al that describes an industrial application of UTP within the field of future internet application. 16 Haxthausen and Peleska propose a bounded model checking approach, combined with inductive reasoning, and model-based testing in the railway domain.…”

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“…However, while their focus is on a specific product, our focus is on a product line approach to automatically generate product‐specific test scripts from a product line. Other approaches proposing the use of UTP for specifying test cases for both static (structural) and dynamic (behavioral) aspects of software systems are those in previous studies 14,15 . Another approach using UTP while not applying it on the railway domain is the one by Bagnato et al that describes an industrial application of UTP within the field of future internet application 16 …”

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“…Iber et al present an approach, which use the interplay of a DSL and UTP 14 . Even though the enabling artifacts of our approach and the one by Iber et al are similar: formal representation of the system, domain specific language for the test case definition, and a transformation to generate the real test scripts, the two works target different applications and use cases.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Even though the enabling artifacts of our approach and the one by Iber et al are similar: formal representation of the system, domain specific language for the test case definition, and a transformation to generate the real test scripts, the two works target different applications and use cases. In Iber et al, 14 the authors' focus is on the definition of a textual DSL to overcome the limitations of the UML Testing Profile defined as “too broad in order to solve specific problems.” Our research aims at providing a lightweight model‐based approach to increase the testing efficiency in software product lines. The different end goals bring the two works to have dissimilarities for example our approach does not require a UML artifact modeling the whole system, but the focus is only on the common/product specific features and how they are distributed among the SPL products.…”

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Model‐based generation of test scripts across product variants: An experience report from the railway industry

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Software product line engineering emerged as an effective approach for the development of families of software‐intensive systems in several industries. Although its use has been widely discussed and researched, there are still several open challenges for its industrial adoption and application. One of these is how to efficiently develop and reuse shared software artifacts, which have dependencies on the underlying electrical and hardware systems of products in a family. In this work, we report on our experience in tackling such a challenge in the railway industry and present a model‐based approach for the automatic generation of test scripts for product variants in software product lines. The proposed approach is the result of an effort leveraging the experiences and results from the technology transfer activities with our industrial partner Alstom SA in Sweden. We applied and evaluated the proposed approach on the Aventra software product line from Alstom SA. The evaluation showed that the proposed approach mitigates the development effort, development time, and consistency drawbacks associated with the traditional, manual creation of test scripts. We performed an online survey involving 37 engineers from Alstom SA for collecting feedback on the approach. The result of the survey further confirms the aforementioned benefits.

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confidence: 99%