Test Generation from UML Sequence Diagrams

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Joao Pascoal Faria (Author) FEUP; Ana C R Paiva (Author) FEUP; Zhuanli L Yang (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology - QUATIC 2012

Pages: 245-250

8th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology - QUATIC 2012

Lisboa, Portugal, 2 a 6 de Setembro de 2012

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-005-3VQ

DOI: 10.1109/quatic.2012.57

Abstract (EN): Model-driven engineering approaches aim at avoiding productivity, model quality and model maintenance problems that arise when models are used for documentation only, by generating executable applications from models. However, in many cases, the level of detail of the models needed to generate complete applications is too much or only effective for specific domains. For those cases where it is not practical to build complete models and generate complete applications from them, we propose a lightweight approach, applicable at different levels (unit, integration and system testing), that combines partial application generation from structural models with test generation from partial behavioral models. To demonstrate the approach, we developed a plug-in that adds to the code generation capabilities of an existing UML modeling tool, the capability of generating executable tests from sequence diagrams acting also as parameterized test scenarios, including some novel features as compared to existing model-based testing tools.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6