Automatic Test Case Generation from UML Sequence Diagram

Author

Sarma, Monalisa ; Kundu, Debasish ; Mall, Rajib

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur

fYear

2007

fDate

18-21 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

67

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach of generating test cases from UML design diagrams. Our approach consists of transforming a UML sequence diagram into a graph called the sequence diagram graph (SDG) and augmenting the SDG nodes with different information necessary to compose test vectors. These information are mined from use case templates, class diagrams and data dictionary. The SDG is then traversed to generate test cases. The test cases thus generated are suitable for system testing and to detect interaction and scenario faults.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; program testing; UML design diagrams; UML sequence diagrams; automatic test case generation; class diagrams; data dictionary; sequence diagram graph; system testing; test vectors; use case templates; Application software; Automatic testing; Computer science; Design engineering; Dictionaries; Fault detection; Information technology; Object oriented modeling; System testing; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Computing and Communications, 2007. ADCOM 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guwahati, Assam

Print_ISBN

0-7695-3059-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ADCOM.2007.68

Filename

4425952