Model based approach to assist test case creation, execution, and maintenance for test automation

Applications, once developed, need to be maintained and tested as they undergo frequent changes. Test automation plays a significant role in testing activity, as it saves time and provides better utilization of resources. Test automation itself comes with many challenges such as mapping of user specifications to test-cases, test-case generation, maintenance of test-cases and test-scripts. In this paper, we propose a model-driven approach for test automation to provide end-to-end assistance in test case generation and automation, with focus on re-usability and maintainability. Functional specifications of system are mapped to test-cases for traceability which ensures better test automation process. Functional specifications of system are used as an input to design process models, which are used for automatic generation of test-cases. Process models consist of flows of different tasks in specified sequence. By recording the individual tasks, test-scripts for all the test-cases are generated. The test-cases and test-scripts can be modified and maintained using user friendly user-interface (UI) to provide better control to test designer and ease the load of tester. In this paper, we also present a case study performed on JBilling application [18] to evaluate our approach.

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