Non-Intrusive Documentation-Driven Integration Testing

Powerful development frameworks and adoption of agile development methods are continuously increasing release frequency, thus compress test cycles. Test automation, often relying on model based approaches, helps to reduce test time, however the introduction of related heavy weight processes is often quite challenging. In order to tackle this problem, we propose a bottom up testing approach, which in a nutshell, in the initial phase supports the integration tester in creating a semi-formal test case description and report. The approach, a textual domain specific framework, will guide the test expert in evolving the base language, in order to be tailored for a domain language of an organization. The evolved language can be linked to executable code, which enables in the long run (semi-)automated model based regression testing.