Abstract
Light has been shed recently on the usage ofrequirements-based testing where requirements-based models, specifically UML models, are used in proposing test cases’ generation models. In this paper, an automated prototype called “Test Cases Automatic Generator” (TCAG) is proposed, implementing an introduced enhanced technique for generating reduced, hybrid coverage and multi-testing types test cases from activity diagrams with a minimum user intervention. After their generation, the final test cases are captured using one of the well known automatic capture-replay tools and are executed generating summary reports. A traceability matrix called “Test cases Traceability Matrix” (TTM) is proposed and used by one of the well known requirements management tools to trace the final generated test cases to their initial requirements. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the proposed prototype is made, under different processing speeds, showing the improved performance over its previous releases and over a closely related prototype as well.
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Boghdady, P.N., Badr, N.L., Hashim, M.A., Tolba, M.F. (2012). Test Cases Automatic Generator (TCAG): A Prototype. In: Hassanien, A.E., Salem, AB.M., Ramadan, R., Kim, Th. (eds) Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications. AMLTA 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35326-0_36
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