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Experiences in Test Automation for Multi-Client System with Social Media Backend

Authors:
Tuomas Kekkonen
Teemu Kanstrén
Jouni Heikkinen

Keywords: model-based testing; test automation; performance testing; data validation testing; web service testing

Abstract:
Effective testing of modern software-intensive systems requires different forms of test automation. This can be implemented using different types of techniques, with different requirements for their application. Each technique has a different cost associated and can address different types of needs and provide its own benefits. In this paper, we describe our experiences in implementing test automation for a multiclient application with a social media backend. As a first option, traditional scripting tools were used to test different aspects of the system. In this case, the test cases were manually defined using an underlying scripting framework to provide a degree of automation for test execution and some abstraction for test description. As a second option, a model-based testing tool was used to generate test cases that could be executed by a test harness. In this case, a generic model of the behaviour was defined at a higher abstraction level and from this large numbers of test cases were automatically generated, which were then executed by a scripting framework. We describe the benefits, costs, and other properties we observed between the two different approaches in our case.

Pages: 34 to 39

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4316

ISBN: 978-1-61208-233-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012