Supporting the Automated Generation of Acceptance Tests of Process-Aware Information Systems

Tales Paiva, Toacy Oliveira, Toacy Oliveira, Raquel Pillat, Paulo Alencar

2023

Abstract

Software quality assurance is a crucial process that ensures software products meet specified requirements and quality standards. Achieving an exhaustive test coverage is essential for quality assurance, particularly in complex and dynamic Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS) built upon the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). Manual testing in such systems is challenging due to many execution paths, dependencies, and external interfaces. This paper proposes a model-based testing strategy that uses BPMN models and build specifications as input to generate a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) script that automates a comprehensive User Acceptance Test procedure. Leveraging on Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate user interactions allows for reducing the need for testers to manually input PAIS-related information when handling user forms. We also present a Case Study to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Paiva T., Oliveira T., Pillat R. and Alencar P. (2023). Supporting the Automated Generation of Acceptance Tests of Process-Aware Information Systems. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST; ISBN 978-989-758-672-9, SciTePress, pages 128-139. DOI: 10.5220/0012211400003584

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist23,
author={Tales Paiva and Toacy Oliveira and Raquel Pillat and Paulo Alencar},
title={Supporting the Automated Generation of Acceptance Tests of Process-Aware Information Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST},
year={2023},
pages={128-139},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012211400003584},
isbn={978-989-758-672-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST
TI - Supporting the Automated Generation of Acceptance Tests of Process-Aware Information Systems
SN - 978-989-758-672-9
AU - Paiva T.
AU - Oliveira T.
AU - Pillat R.
AU - Alencar P.
PY - 2023
SP - 128
EP - 139
DO - 10.5220/0012211400003584
PB - SciTePress