Requirements-based test case specification by using information from model construction

  • Authors:
  • Christian Pfaller

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Automation of software test
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In model-based testing a test case specification is used to determine the set of test cases to be generated automatically. This paper introduces a requirements-based test case specification which uses information gathered by reasoning about the construction of the model. The basic idea is to reason about the motivation why an element of the model was introduced. This reasoning about model construction leads to specific restrictions of the model for every requirement; the restricted models are used for requirements-based test case generation. The paper gives a formal specification of the requirements-based test case specification TSpecREQ based on Mealy machines and outlines its usage in a development process where the requirements specifications given by various stakeholders are considered as well.