Scenario specification based testing model generation

Abstract

Building a simplified model for testing complex software system has been highlighted for optimizing test generation. This paper presents an approach to generating the constrained FSM with the scenario. Firstly, we use FSM to describe the behavior model of the target system. Then, we study the method of modeling scenarios with UML diagrams, including use case diagram, activity diagram, sequence diagram and statechart diagram. We describe how to achieve the constraint process by means of mapping and projection operations between FSM and UML diagrams. Finally, we obtain a reduced FSM by using UML activity diagrams to constrain FSM. The main contribution of the paper is to present an effective modeling method to optimize testing generation from the model.