Using anti-ant-like agents to generate test threads from the UML diagrams

Authors:
Huaizhong Li;C. Peng Lam
Affiliations:
School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Mt. Lawley, WA, Australia;School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Mt. Lawley, WA, Australia
Venue:
TestCom'05 Proceedings of the 17th IFIP TC6/WG 6.1 international conference on Testing of Communicating Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The problem of generating the test cases is one of the most important issues in the software testing research and practice. Test threads, especially the thin-threads which are the usage scenarios in a software system, are frequently used to generate test cases for the scenario-based software testing. However, the derivation of the test threads is usually a manual and labor-intensive task. In this paper, we propose an automated approach using anti-ant-like agents to directly generate test threads from the UML artifacts. The generated test threads can then be used to generate and to prioritize the test cases for scenario-based software testing.