Platform-independent and tool-neutral test descriptions for automated software testing

Author

Liu, Chang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

713

Lastpage

715

Abstract

Current automatic test execution techniques are sensitive to changes in program implementation. Moreover, different test descriptions are required by different testing tools. As a result, it is difficult to maintain or port test descriptions. To address this problem, we developed TestTalk, a comprehensive testing language. TestTalk test descriptions are platform-independent and tool-neutral. The same software test in TestTalk can be automatically executed by different testing tools on different platforms. The goal of TestTalk is to make software test descriptions, which represent a significant portion of a software project, last as long as the software project

Keywords

automatic programming; hypermedia markup languages; program testing; TestTalk; automated software testing; automatic test execution techniques; comprehensive testing language; program implementation; software project; software test descriptions; testing tools; tool-neutral test descriptions; Application software; Automatic testing; Automation; Computational modeling; Computer industry; Computer science; Software testing; Software tools; User interfaces; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Limerick

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

1-58113-206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2000.870477

Filename

870477