Towards Rapid Creation of Test Adaptation in On-line Model-Based Testing

Nylund, Kim; Östman, Erik; Truşcan, Dragoş; Teittinen, Risto

doi:10.1109/compsacw.2011.38

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“…Regarding the information obtained, the majority of articles introduces the use of a single model for the generation of test cases and only six articles present the use of more than one model to generate the test cases. Four of them use two models [18], [19], [21], [25], and two use three models [26] [33]. Different types of models represent different views of the software, so that a greater number of models would make it possible to evaluate the software from their different views, thus providing greater coverage of the software.…”

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“…It is important to highlight that 80% of the modelbased testing proposals presented the use of UML standard for the models used as input in the generation of test cases. The remaining 20% presents other models, such as Petrinets [21], data models [18], and objects diagrams [33] (see Fig.3). Finally, to answer the research question, RQ: What are the existent techniques for the automatic generation of tests cases based on models?, we can establish that there exist techniques that allow to generate test cases from UML models, most of which use a single model to generate test cases, such as [20] uses the data model, [22] uses state diagrams, [29] uses use cases, [30] uses sequence diagram, and [32] uses a class diagram.…”

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“…Table 3 shows a comparison of TCGen regarding other tools that we found in our literature review. [18] Behavioural and state diagrams -abstract no EAST Test runner [18] --concrete -Condado [19] State transition diagram ---Mista [21] Petri nets and state transition diagrama Coverage criteria -yes TestMaster [22] State transition diagram -concrete no TaRGet [24] Use case diagram ---PLeTsPerf [25] Use case diagram and activity diagram concrete -SpecExplorer [28] State transition diagram -Concrete no LEIRIOS Smart Testing [32], [33] Class diagrams, objects diagrams, and state transition diagrams -Abstract -…”

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“…As is shown in Table 3, there are some tools that do not specify the type of diagram used as input in the process of test case generation, such as JULE and EAST Test runner, which impede their use in other projects different than the projects reported at [17] and [18], respectively. Regarding the models used to generate test cases it is possible to observe that the majority of tools uses state transition diagrams, and just one tool also uses the class diagram as input in the generation of test cases [32], [33].…”

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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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