Automated Testing of Distributed and Heterogeneous Systems Based on UML Sequence Diagrams

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2016

Authors

Lima, B (Author) FEUP; João Pascoal Faria (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES (ICSOFT 2015)

Pages: 380-396

10th International Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT)

Colmar, FRANCE, JUL 20-22, 2015

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 7 Citations

Scopus - 10 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00K-6AQ

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30142-6_21

Abstract (EN): The growing dependence of our society on increasingly complex software systems makes software testing ever more important and challenging. In many domains, several independent systems, forming a distributed and heterogeneous system of systems, are involved in the provisioning of end-to-end services to users. However, existing test automation techniques provide little tool support for properly testing such systems. Hence, we propose an approach and toolset architecture for automating the testing of end-to-end services in distributed and heterogeneous systems, comprising a visual modeling environment, a test execution engine, and a distributed test monitoring and control infrastructure. The only manual activity required is the description of the participants and behavior of the services under test with UML sequence diagrams, which are translated to extended Petri nets for efficient test input generation and test output checking at runtime. A real world example from the Ambient Assisted Living domain illustrates the approach.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 17