Towards traceability of model-based testing artifacts

  • Authors:

  • Leila Naslavsky;Hadar Ziv;Debra J. Richardson

  • Affiliations:

  • University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Advances in model-based testing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Practitioners regard software testing as the central means for ensuring that a system behaves as expected. Due to the recent widespread adoption of model-driven development (MDD), code is no longer the single source for selecting test cases. Testing against original expectations can be done with model-based testing that adopts high-level models as the basis for test generation. In addition to test generation, challenges to model-based testing include creation and maintenance of traceability information among test-related artifacts. Traceability is required to support activities such as result evaluation, regression testing and coverage analysis. MDD and model transformation solutions address the traceability problem by creating relationships among transformed artifacts throughout the transformation process. This paper proposes an approach that leverages model transformation traceability techniques to create fine-grained relationships among model-based testing artifacts. Relationships are created during the test generation process. Their fine granularity enables the support for result evaluation, coverage analysis and regression testing.