Challenges Regarding Automation of Requirements-based Testing
Date | 30 May 2017 - 1 Jun 2017 |
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Event | DASIA 2017 |
Location | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Testing as a method of software verification is
limited in that it can only prove the presence of defects, not
their absence. To be useful, a large number of test cases may
be needed, a strategy that is often in conflict with project
constraints such as available time and funds. Test automation
may be considered as an interesting approach to alleviating
this conflict. However, test automation requires accurate and
computer-accessible information about the system to be tested,
both in terms of the interfaces by which the system is to be
stimulated as well as the desired properties of these interfaces.
Within the FASTII activity (FAST=Flow-optimised Automated
Source-code based Testing) the possibility of deriving this
information from available requirements and design
documents is being investigated. Preliminary results of this
investigation as well as suggestions for future changes in the
process are presented in this paper.
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