Test intents: enhancing the semantics of requirements traceability links in test cases

Authors:
Celal Ziftci;Ingolf Krüger
Affiliations:
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Requirements traces establish links between requirements and software artifacts, such as source code, test cases and configuration files. Understanding which requirements are covered by test cases, i.e. requirements tracing in test cases, is an important concern in quality assurance of complex software systems. There is existing literature to obtain requirements traces in different software artifacts. In this work, we build upon existing requirements tracing methods for test cases and introduce test intents, i.e. which requirements test cases aim to test. We also propose a method to identify test intents, and show that our approach can identify the intents successfully on our case studies on four realistic software systems.