A Novel Approach to Generate Test Cases from UML Activity Diagrams
Debasish Kundu and Debasis Samanta |
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Abstract
Model-based test case generation is getting acceptance to the software practitioners.
Its advantage is the early detection of faults, reducing software development time.
For this purpose, researchers have considered di®erent UML diagrams for generating
test cases. Few work on the test case generation using activity diagram is reported
in the literature. But, limitation of the existing works is that they consider activity
diagram in method scope and use UML 1.x syntax for modeling. In this paper, we
present a novel approach of generating test cases from activity diagram using UML
2.0 syntax and with use case scope. In our work, we consider a test coverage criteria,
called activity path coverage criteria. The test cases generated using our approach
are capable of detecting more faults like synchronization faults, loop faults than the
existing approaches.
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About the authors
Debasish Kundu completed his B. Tech. in Computer Science
and Technology from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College, Kalyani
University, India in 2003. He received MS (by research) from
School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur in 2007. Currently, he is pursuing Ph.D. in the same
department and institute. He is IEEE member.
His major research interests are: Software Engineering, Software Testing using UML, Distributed Systems. He can be reached
at dkundu@sit.iitkgp.ernet.in.
See also http://sit.iitkgp.ernet.in/dkundu.
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Debasis Samanta received his B. Tech. degree in Computer
Science and Engineering from the Calcutta University, in 1993,
and his M. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from
the Jadavpur University, in 1995 and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur in 2002. He is currently an Assistant Professor in
the School of Information Technology at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur. He has previously worked at North Eastern
Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar
(1995-2004).
His research interests are: Low Power VLSI Systems Design,
Human Computer Interaction, and Information System Design. He
is the author of the books Object-Oriented Programming with C++
and Java, Prentice Hall of India, 2000 and Classic Data Structures,
Prentice Hall of India, 2002. He received the Best Author of the
Year Award, from Computer Society of India in 1999.
He has served on the program committee of CIT 2005, and
IEEE INDICON 2006, and ICETAETS 2008. He is a member of
Board of Faculties of North East Hill University (NEHU), Shillong,
and Secretary of IEEE Kharagpur Section.
He can be reached at dsamanta@sit.iitkgp.ernet.in.
See also http://facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/dsamanta.
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Debasish Kundu, Debasis Samanta: "A Novel Approach to Generating Test Cases from UML Activity Diagrams", in Journal of Object Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, May-June 2009, pp. 65-83 http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2009_05/article1/
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