Practical Model-Based Testing

A Tools Approach

Mark Utting, Bruno Legeard

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780123725011
• eBook ISBN: 9780080466484
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Object Oriented Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Practical Model-Based Testing gives a practical introduction to model-based testing, showing how to write models for testing purposes and how to use model-based testing tools to generate test suites. It is aimed at testers and software developers who wish to use model-based testing, rather than at tool-developers or academics. The book focuses on the mainstream practice of functional black-box testing and covers different styles of models, especially transition-based models (UML state machines) and pre/post models (UML/OCL specifications and B notation). The steps of applying model-based testing are demonstrated on examples and case studies from a variety of software domains, including embedded software and information systems. From this book you will learn: - The basic principles and terminology of model-based testing - How model-based testing differs from other testing processes - How model-based testing fits into typical software lifecycles such as agile methods and the Unified Process - The benefits and limitations of model-based testing, its cost effectiveness and how it can reduce time-to-market - A step-by-step process for applying model-based testing - How to write good models for model-based testing - How to use a variety of test selection criteria to control the tests that are generated from your models - How model-based testing can connect to existing automated test execution platforms such as Mercury Test Director, Java JUnit, and proprietary test execution environments - Presents the basic principles and terminology of model-based testing - Shows how model-based testing fits into the software lifecycle, its cost-effectiveness, and how it can reduce time to market - Offers guidance on how to use different kinds of modeling techniques, useful test generation strategies, how to apply model-based testing techniques to real applications using case studies

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• About the authors
• Chapter 1 The challenge
• Chapter 2 The pain and the gain
• Chapter 3 A model of your system
• Chapter 4 Selecting your tests
• Chapter 5 Testing from finite state machines
• Chapter 6 Testing from pre/post models
• Chapter 7 Testing from UML transition-based models
• Chapter 8 Making tests executable
• Chapter 9 The gsm 11.11 case study
• Chapter 10 The atm case study
• Chapter 11 Putting it into practice
• Appendix A Summary of B abstract machine notation
• Appendix B Summary of common OCL constructs
• Appendix C Commercial tools
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index