Testing against Natural Language Requirements

  • Authors:
  • Harry M. Sneed

  • Affiliations:
  • Anecon GmbH, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • QSIC '07 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Testingagainstnaturallanguage requirementsisthestandardapproachforsystem andacceptancetesting.Thistestisoftenperformed byanindependenttestorganizationunfamiliarwith the application area. The only things the testers have togobyarethewrittenrequirements.Soitis essentialtobeabletoanalyzethoserequirements and to extract test cases from them. In this paper an automated approach to requirements based testing is presented andillustrated on an industrial application.