systematic generation of XML instances to test complex software applications

Authors:
Antonia Bertolino;Jinghua Gao;Eda Marchetti;Andrea Polini
Affiliations:
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione "Alessandro Faedo", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy;Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione "Alessandro Faedo", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy;Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione "Alessandro Faedo", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy;Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione
Venue:
RISE'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Rapid integration of software engineering techniques
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We introduce the XPT approach for the automated systematic generation of XML instances which conform to a given XML Schema, and its implementation into the proof-of-concept tool TAXI. XPT can be used to automatize the black-box testing of any general application that expects in input the XML instances. We generate a comprehensive set of instances by sampling all the possible combinations of elements within the schema, applying and adapting the well known Category-Partition strategy for functional testing. Originally, XPT has been conceived for application to the e-Learning domain, within which we briefly discuss some examples.