An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram

Software or application testing is a process of executing a program with the goal of finding defect to make better system. In software testing phase, writing test cases is one of the important activities. Manually writing test cases approach is lengthy of time period and need more effort to accompli...

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Main Authors: Nor, Rozi Nor Haizan, Monim, Md Abdul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Publishing Corporation 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/1/UML.pdf
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author Nor, Rozi Nor Haizan
Monim, Md Abdul
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Monim, Md Abdul
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description Software or application testing is a process of executing a program with the goal of finding defect to make better system. In software testing phase, writing test cases is one of the important activities. Manually writing test cases approach is lengthy of time period and need more effort to accomplish the process. On the other hand, automated test case generation technique is the way to solve this issue and model-based test case generation approach would be the appropriate for this automation process. Usually, a model is required in model-based testing approach to generate the test cases and UML activity diagram is the model in our research. In this paper, we explained our proposed model-based test case generating approach and we successfully developed a tool based on our proposed technique that could generate test cases automatically using UML activity diagram as an input. Finally, we conducted an experiment on a real life simple application of a system using the tool and successfully able to show that our tool can produce same test cases as manually writing test cases of the same system but this tool can save a lot of time and effort as well.
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spelling upm-730942020-12-01T21:31:10Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/ An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram Nor, Rozi Nor Haizan Monim, Md Abdul Software or application testing is a process of executing a program with the goal of finding defect to make better system. In software testing phase, writing test cases is one of the important activities. Manually writing test cases approach is lengthy of time period and need more effort to accomplish the process. On the other hand, automated test case generation technique is the way to solve this issue and model-based test case generation approach would be the appropriate for this automation process. Usually, a model is required in model-based testing approach to generate the test cases and UML activity diagram is the model in our research. In this paper, we explained our proposed model-based test case generating approach and we successfully developed a tool based on our proposed technique that could generate test cases automatically using UML activity diagram as an input. Finally, we conducted an experiment on a real life simple application of a system using the tool and successfully able to show that our tool can produce same test cases as manually writing test cases of the same system but this tool can save a lot of time and effort as well. Science Publishing Corporation 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/1/UML.pdf Nor, Rozi Nor Haizan and Monim, Md Abdul (2018) An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram. International Journal of Engineering and Technology (UAE), 7 (4.31). 58 - 63. ISSN 2227-524X https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/23342/11650 10.14419/ijet.v7i4.31.23342
spellingShingle Nor, Rozi Nor Haizan
Monim, Md Abdul
An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram
title An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram
title_full An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram
title_fullStr An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram
title_full_unstemmed An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram
title_short An automated test case generating tool using UML activity diagram
title_sort automated test case generating tool using uml activity diagram
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73094/1/UML.pdf