Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
IEEE Conference Publishing Services
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Information Science
RAS ID
6100
Abstract
The article presents a novel control-flow based test sequence generation technique using UML 2.0 activity diagram, which is a behavioral type of UML diagram. Like other model-based techniques, this technique can be used in the earlier phases of the development process owing to the availability of the design models of the system. The activity diagram model is seamlessly converted into a colored Petri net. We proposed a technique that enables the automatic generation of test sequences according to a given coverage criteria from the execution of the colored Petri nets model. Two types of structural coverage criteria for AD based models, namely sequential and concurrent coverage are described. The proposed technique was applied to an example to demonstrate its feasibility and the generated test sequences were evaluated against selected coverage criteria. This technique can potentially be adapted to service oriented applications, workflows, and concurrent applications.
DOI
10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483233
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Farooq, U. , Lam, C. P., & Li, H. (2008). Towards Automated Test Sequence Generation. Proceedings of 19th Australian Conference on Software Engineering ASWEC 2008 (pp. 441-450). Australia: Perth WA. IEEE Conference Publishing Services. Available here
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