Abstract
Test definition and execution is an essential but time-consuming task during system development. To speed up the process, model-based testing and other related approaches propose to generate/write abstract test cases and to concretize them using either transformations, an adapter, or a mixture of the two. QTaste is an industrial data-driven test case definition and execution environment used to perform black-box testing on various kinds of systems. QTaste's test cases are manually written in Python and use an adapter, called test API, to execute operations on the System Under Test (SUT) interfaces. In this paper, we describe AbsCon (Abstract test case Concretizer), a plugin used to generate test cases executable in QTaste based on their definition: i.e., sequences of abstract actions and assertions. AbsCon uses programmer friendly mappings (written in Python) for the SUT's interfaces, actions, and assertions, to generate standard test cases in QTaste format. Rather than having a complete model-based testing transformation chain, the plugin is bridging the gap between existing model-based test case generation tools and an industrial test case execution system using a mix of transformation and adaptation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops |
Subtitle of host publication | 15th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST '19) |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 15-22 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-7281-0888-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | ICSTW 2019: 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops - Xi’an, China Duration: 22 Apr 2019 → 27 Apr 2019 Conference number: 12 |
Conference
Conference | ICSTW 2019: 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops |
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Abbreviated title | ICSTW 2019 |
Country/Territory | China |
City | Xi’an |
Period | 22/04/19 → 27/04/19 |
Keywords
- QTaste
- Software testing tool
- Test case concretization