Nader Kesserwan¹, Jameela Al-Jaroodi¹, Nader Mohamed² and Imad Jawhar³ , ¹Robert Morris University, USA, ²Pennsylvania Western University, USA, ³AlMaaref University, Lebanon

Executable test cases start at the beginning of testing as abstract requirements representing the system behavior. The manual development of these test cases is labor-intensive, error-prone, and costly. Describing the system requirements into behavioral models and transforming them into a scripting language has the potential to automate their propagation to executable tests. Ideally, an efficient testing process should begin as early as possible, refine the use cases with sufficient details and facilitate test case creation. We propose an approach that enables automation in propagating functional requirements to executable test cases through model transformation. The proposed testing process begins with capturing system behavior as visual use cases, adopting a domain-specific language, defining transformation rules, and finally transforming the use cases into executable tests.

Model-Driven, Model Transformation, Requirement Propagation, & Test Cases