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Executable Testing based on an Agnostic-Platform Modeling Language

Authors:
Concepción Sanz
Alejandro Salas
Miguel de Miguel
Alejandro Alonso
Juan Antonio de la Puente

Keywords: Model-based testing; Reuse

Abstract:
Among the different approaches to deal with testing, model-based techniques come up as promising solutions due to their independence from testing platforms, their quick adaptation to changes during the modeling process, and the use of abstract concepts, which make testers focus only on the business. However, most of the solutions are proprietary or based on the complexity of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) models. We propose a testing framework based on a non-UML test-centred modeling language which is agnostic about any execution platform. The framework also allows to increase the expressivity of the test models by designing execution flows, which connet to elements existing in test models. Apart from design tests, the proposed framework deals with execution, including the necessary mechanisms to transform models, on demand and in an automatic way, into executable tests for a variety of testing platforms. In order to show the flexibility of the proposed approach, we introduce as case study two testing platforms which manage tests in different ways.

Pages: 110 to 116

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: February 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8394

ISBN: 978-1-61208-458-9

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 21, 2016 to February 25, 2016