Authors:
Kuruvilla Lukose
1
;
Shivam Agarwal
2
;
Vidyashankar Nagesha Rao
1
and
Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair
2
Affiliations:
1
Altair Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., India
;
2
Graphics-Visualization-Computing Lab and International Institute of Information Technology, India
Keyword(s):
Graph Visualization, Test Plan Generation, HCI, Model based Testing, CAD/CAE Applications.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Abstract Data Visualization
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Graph Visualization
;
Software Visualization
;
Visual Representation and Interaction
Abstract:
Model Based Testing (MBT) is a popularly used software testing technique in the software industry. However, there still exists a gap between the awareness of benefits of MBT and its adoption in the industry, specifically in the Computer Aided Design (CAD) or Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) domains. This can be predominantly attributed to the learning curve of using many of the existing MBT tools. To address this gap in the CAD/CAE industry, we propose Pathfinder - an MBT tool, with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), for guiding a software tester in generating test plans for a system-under-test (SUT). The goal of using Pathfinder is for obtaining consistency and reproducibility in the generated test plans across a team of software testers. Our tool introduces a novel representation of the SUT as a High-level Model (HLM), and the use of graph visualization for test plan generation from the HLM. We have designed the GUI to be intuitive for the tester to generate test plans and select re
levant tests, which precedes the test execution done outside of our tool. Here, we discuss the design decisions we adopted towards creating Pathfinder, and demonstrates its usage with two case studies.
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