Uma abordagem dirigida por modelos para geração automática de casos de teste de integração usando padrões de teste.

Abstract

Within the Software Engineering, new development paradigms are emerging in order to offer greater productivity without sacrificing quality to the developed software. MDD (Model-Driven Development) is one of these paradigms, whose main purpose is to introduce rigorous models along all the software development process offering, among other advantages, automatic code generation from models. However, even in development processes that follow this paradigm, the software testing activity is still essential, especially integration testing, whose purpose is to verify that the software components, implemented and tested separately, provide the desired functionality when placed to interact with each other. While individual components may function correctly, several new faults can arise when the components are integrated. However, in integration testing, depending on the system complexity, the number of test cases can be very large. In this context, the use of test patterns, i. e., strategies that have been used and proved effective in software testing, can guide the user at choosing test cases more effective and appropriate among a very large number of possible cases test. The main objective of this work is to propose a new approach to integration testing, defined with in an integrated model driven development and test process (MDD/MDT - Model-Driven Testing) for automatically generating test case from models adopting test patterns as basis for the generation process. To automate this process, we have developed a tool based on model transformations according to MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) practices. Furthermore, the proposal approach uses the UML testing profile to document all generated test artifacts. Additionally, preliminary experimental case studies were performed in order to evaluate the proposed approach and hence the developed tool support.