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E-Commerce systems have become ubiquitous. However, it is a challenge to create high quality e-commerce systems respecting time and budgetary constraints. In this paper, we present a life-cycle testing process for e-commerce systems by adapting OO-TTCN-3, an object-oriented extension of a formal test language TTCN-3, to enable the efficient specification of tests in object-oriented, e-commerce development environments. This extension is meant to ease life-cycle testing, facilitate test case reuse between different test phases, and provide a unified Abstract Test Suite (ATS) interface to test tools. A case study shows how to apply the approach to a typical e-commerce system based on a high-yield, risk-directed strategy.
This work was partially supported by Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) in a collaborative project with IBM, and by Testing Technologies IST GmbH. The authors are grateful for the comments of the anonymous referees,which improved the paper considerably.
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Probert, R.L., Xiong, P., Stepien, B. (2004). Life-Cycle E-commerce Testing with OO-TTCN-3. In: Núñez, M., Maamar, Z., Pelayo, F.L., Pousttchi, K., Rubio, F. (eds) Applying Formal Methods: Testing, Performance, and M/E-Commerce. FORTE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30233-9_2
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