Developing comprehensive acceptance tests from use cases and robustness diagrams

  • Authors:

  • Mohamed El-Attar;James Miller

  • Affiliations:

  • King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Information and Computer Science Department, P.O. Box 941, 31261, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia;University of Alberta, STEAM Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 9107-116 St, AB T6G 2V4, Edmonton, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In agile development processes, the rewards from acceptance testing are maximized by using the practice to drive the development process. Traditionally, User Stories are used in agile projects to describe a system’s usage scenarios and are utilized as a basis for developing acceptance tests. This paper introduces a technique that aims to achieve the benefits of acceptance testing within large-scale development projects that deploy a V-model development process, specifically those that utilize use case models. The approach is based on utilizing a number of artifacts: use case models supported by robustness diagrams and domain models. The feasibility of the proposed approach is demonstrated by applying it to a real-world system—the RestoMapper system. The results show that a comprehensive set of acceptance tests can be developed based upon use case models.