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Practical Model-Based Testing
A Tools Approach

The first developer guide to Model-Based Testing

Mark Utting (Author), Bruno Legeard (Author)

9780123725011

Hardback, published 14 March 2007

456 pages, Illustrated
23.4 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 1.09 kg

"This topic is hot...and both authors are well known experts in the community of model-based testing." —Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Research

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

1 The Challenge
2 The Pain and the Gain
3 A Model of your System
4 Selecting your Tests
5 Testing from Finite State Machines
6 Testing from Pre/Post Models
7 Testing from UML Models
8 Making Tests Executable
9 The GSM 11.11 Case Study
10 The ATM Case Study
11 Putting it into Practice
Appendix
Index

Subject Areas: Programming & scripting languages: general [UMX], Object-oriented programming [OOP UMN], Computer programming / software development [UM]
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