An Ontology for Guiding Performance Testing

Abstract

Software test is a technique to obtain information about software systems quality. Performance test is a type of software test that aims at evaluating software performance at a given load scenario, but it requires specialized knowledge about tools, activities and metrics of the domain. Since ontology is a promising knowledge representation technique, this paper presents a literature review to identify trends and compare researches of ontologies in the fields of software testing and software performance. Also, to investigate this issue from a practical perspective, it was developed an ontology for representing the core knowledge of performance testing. This paper presents the ontology and compare it with related ones. Then, semantic technologies are explored to demonstrate the practical feasibility of developing ontology-based applications for assisting testers with performance test planning and management.

Application of Inference Rules to a Software Requirements Ontology to Generate Software Test Cases

“…There exist only a few projects that rely on ontologies for software testing activities, for example [13,5]. As mentioned earlier in this paper, an ontology represents a formal model of the knowledge captured for a specific domain, in this Table 3.…”

Canopus: A Domain-Specific Language for Modeling Performance Testing

“…Regarding domain analysis, some works present an approach based on the formalization of domain analysis through ontologies [TMG09] [WSPS09]. Therefore, to determine the concepts, entities and functionalities that represent the performance testing domain, we adopted a strategy to identify and analyze the domain using an ontology [FV14]. This ontology provides the basis for determining the concepts, relationships, and constraints that represent the performance testing domain.…”

“…This ontology provides the basis for determining the concepts, relationships, and constraints that represent the performance testing domain. Figure 4.1 shows a UML class diagram to resume the main terms represented in the performance testing ontology [FV14]. Each class in the diagram represents a concept and each association represents a property.…”

“…During the domain analysis of the performance testing, we investigated a broad scope of literature as well as practiced several software projects that applied performance testing. Besides, another recent study previously developed in our research group proposed an ontology for performance testing [FV14], mapping the main concepts, relationships, and constraints that represent the performance testing domain. Because of that, we are already sketching an initial performance testing body of knowledge.…”

Unificando conceitos de avaliação de desempenho, engenharia de desempenho e teste de software para a análise de sistemas computacionais

“…• An Ontology for Guiding Performance Testing -2014 (FREITAS;VIEIRA, 2014) Neste trabalho foi desenvolvida uma ontologia para representar o conhecimento sobre Teste de Desempenho, guiando assim o testador em como proceder para a realização de tais testes. Além disso, os autores apresentam uma revisão sistemática da literatura a respeito de ontologia de teste de software e desempenho de software, e chegam a conclusão que não há nenhuma outra ontologia que cobre especificamente o domínio de teste de desempenho.…”