Empowering Testing Activities with Modeling - Achievements and Insights from Nine Years of Collaboration with Cisco

Shaukat Ali, Marius Liaaen, Shuai Wang, Tao Yue

2017

Abstract

Research-Based Innovation (RBI) aims at bringing research-driven innovative solutions to the industrial problems identified from the industry in close collaboration with researchers. This paper focuses on presenting one such instance of RBI between Cisco Systems, Norway and the Software Engineering department of Simula Research Laboratory, Norway over the period of last nine years. The main topic of the collaboration was related to improving the current testing practice at Cisco with the use of models. We present a brief overview of various model-driven testing projects, and lessons learned from such RBI collaboration from researchers’ perspective.

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Ali S., Liaaen M., Wang S. and Yue T. (2017). Empowering Testing Activities with Modeling - Achievements and Insights from Nine Years of Collaboration with Cisco . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: IndTrackMODELSWARD, (MODELSWARD 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-210-3, pages 581-589. DOI: 10.5220/0006216105810589


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@conference{indtrackmodelsward17,
author={Shaukat Ali and Marius Liaaen and Shuai Wang and Tao Yue},
title={Empowering Testing Activities with Modeling - Achievements and Insights from Nine Years of Collaboration with Cisco},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: IndTrackMODELSWARD, (MODELSWARD 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={581-589},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006216105810589},
isbn={978-989-758-210-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: IndTrackMODELSWARD, (MODELSWARD 2017)
TI - Empowering Testing Activities with Modeling - Achievements and Insights from Nine Years of Collaboration with Cisco
SN - 978-989-758-210-3
AU - Ali S.
AU - Liaaen M.
AU - Wang S.
AU - Yue T.
PY - 2017
SP - 581
EP - 589
DO - 10.5220/0006216105810589