Visual Requirements Specification and Automated Test Generation for Digital Applications

Digital, an amalgamation of social, cloud, mobility and analytics, is being widely used by enterprises for building innovative business applications. In digital applications, there is a healthy tension between ´business´ and ´IT´, leading to a rapidly evolving digital application. Often, digital applications have many stakeholders, requiring a role-based access and visualization of data. There is an emphasis on user experience. Due to such characteristics, a visual approach, such as ´Pretotyping´, to documenting and validating requirements is required. While this creates a better connect between business users and business analysts, it makes testing more difficult. In this paper, we present a rationale for visual requirements of digital applications, and then present a graph-model based approach for automated generation of test cases from visual requirements.