Title :
A process to increase the model quality in the context of model-based testing
Author :
Entin, Vladimir ; Winder, Mathias ; Bo Zhang ; Claus, Andreas
Author_Institution :
Software Quality Assurance, Omicron Electron. GmbH, Klaus, Austria
Abstract :
In the past years model-based testing (MBT) has become a widely-used approach to the test automation in the industrial context. Until now the application of MBT has been limited to the software quality engineers with very good modelling skills. In order to guarantee the completeness of a model and to increase its precision there is a need to allow the usage of the approach by other project stakeholders such as requirements engineers as well as software quality engineers with a limited modelling experience. In this contribution we share the challenges discovered during the several years of the application of a certain MBT technique in a SCRUM project with particular regard to the definition of precise and complete models. A process which involves the entire software project team into the model definition starting at the very early stages of product development is presented along with its concrete implementation. First experiences with the application of the process in a particular project are presented1.
Keywords :
automata theory; program testing; software quality; MBT technique; SCRUM project; model quality; model-based testing; software quality; test automation; Concrete; Domain specific languages; Software quality; Testing; Unified modeling language; Visualization; SCRUM; domain-specific languages; maintainability; model-based testing; requirements engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), 2015 IEEE Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Graz
DOI :
10.1109/ICSTW.2015.7107471