Structural testing with use cases

Autores
Carniello, Adriana; Jino, Mario; Chaim, Marcos Lordello
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
Understanding how a user interacts with a system is important if the goal is to deliver a product that meets the user's needs. Use cases constitute a primary source of requirements in a user-centered perspective and are often utilized to derive acceptance tests. Given such a critical role in requirements engineering, we introduce a novel set of testing criteria based on the use case specification with a two-fold objective: to assess the quality of test cases derived from use cases and to test the use case specification itself. Differently from previous approaches, the novel set of testing criteria requires that structural elements of the use cases be exercised at least once. To support the application of the new set of testing criteria, a testing coverage tool, called UCT - Use Case Tester, was developed. A case study using UCT shows that the new testing criteria are able to evaluate the quality of a test data set as well as to detect faults in use case specifications.
Facultad de Informática
Materia
Ciencias Informáticas
Reliability, Testing, and Fault-Tolerance
structural testing
software testing
UML
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Structural testing with use cases
title Structural testing with use cases
spellingShingle Structural testing with use cases
Carniello, Adriana
Ciencias Informáticas
Reliability, Testing, and Fault-Tolerance
structural testing
software testing
UML
title_short Structural testing with use cases
title_full Structural testing with use cases
title_fullStr Structural testing with use cases
title_full_unstemmed Structural testing with use cases
title_sort Structural testing with use cases
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Carniello, Adriana
Jino, Mario
Chaim, Marcos Lordello
author Carniello, Adriana
author_facet Carniello, Adriana
Jino, Mario
Chaim, Marcos Lordello
author_role author
author2 Jino, Mario
Chaim, Marcos Lordello
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Informáticas
Reliability, Testing, and Fault-Tolerance
structural testing
software testing
UML
topic Ciencias Informáticas
Reliability, Testing, and Fault-Tolerance
structural testing
software testing
UML
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Understanding how a user interacts with a system is important if the goal is to deliver a product that meets the user's needs. Use cases constitute a primary source of requirements in a user-centered perspective and are often utilized to derive acceptance tests. Given such a critical role in requirements engineering, we introduce a novel set of testing criteria based on the use case specification with a two-fold objective: to assess the quality of test cases derived from use cases and to test the use case specification itself. Differently from previous approaches, the novel set of testing criteria requires that structural elements of the use cases be exercised at least once. To support the application of the new set of testing criteria, a testing coverage tool, called UCT - Use Case Tester, was developed. A case study using UCT shows that the new testing criteria are able to evaluate the quality of a test data set as well as to detect faults in use case specifications.
Facultad de Informática
description Understanding how a user interacts with a system is important if the goal is to deliver a product that meets the user's needs. Use cases constitute a primary source of requirements in a user-centered perspective and are often utilized to derive acceptance tests. Given such a critical role in requirements engineering, we introduce a novel set of testing criteria based on the use case specification with a two-fold objective: to assess the quality of test cases derived from use cases and to test the use case specification itself. Differently from previous approaches, the novel set of testing criteria requires that structural elements of the use cases be exercised at least once. To support the application of the new set of testing criteria, a testing coverage tool, called UCT - Use Case Tester, was developed. A case study using UCT shows that the new testing criteria are able to evaluate the quality of a test data set as well as to detect faults in use case specifications.
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