Systematic Review of Automatic Test Case Generation by UML Diagrams

Software testing is an important activity in the Software Development Life Cycle. To cut down the time and cost of manual testing and to increase the reliability of the software, researchers and practitioners have proposed various tools and techniques for automation of software testing. A great deal of research effort has been spent on finding efficient methods for different aspects of test case automation. Many researchers have proposed various techniques on automatic test case generation and it still remains an area of interest for them. This paper presents a systematic survey of the work done in the field of automatic generation of test case particularly related to UML based automated test case generation.

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