Wiki support for automated definition of software test cases

• Autores: Antonelli, Leandro; Hozikian, Mariángeles; Camilleri, Guy; Fernandez, Alejandro; Grigera, Julian; Torres, Diego; Zarate, Pascale
• Año de publicación: 2019
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Ciencias de la Computación e Información; scenarios; software development; tests
• Institución: Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

The design of tests is a very important step in the software development process since the set of tests should match the users’ expectations (captured through the requirements) with the finished product (the application) in order to show that the requirements are implemented. Being considered as a cumbersome activity, efforts have been made to automatize and alleviate the burden of test generation, but it is still a largely neglected step. We propose taking advantage of existing requirement artifacts, like Scenarios that describe the dynamic of the domain in a very early stage of software development, to obtain tests from them. In particular, the approach proposed complements the Scenarios that are textually described with a glossary, the Language Extended Lexicon. Thus, a set of rules to derive tests from Scenarios is also proposed. The tests are described using the Task/Method model. The main contributions of this work consist of an extension of a previously presented set of rules, and their implementation in a tool based on a media wiki platform that, through semantic support, makes it possible to record Scenarios and the Language Extended Lexicon to obtain the tests in an automatic way.