A Systematic Mapping Study on Techniques for Generating Test Cases from Requirements

Alessandro Rodrigues, Jéssyka Vilela, Carla Silva

2024

Abstract

Context: Software testing can be costly for organizations. Techniques and tools that deal with the automatic generation of test cases provide a way to reduce the efforts employed and the time-to-market, in addition to increasing the quality of the software. Objective: This work aims to investigate the literature regarding techniques used to generate test cases from requirements automatically. Method: We performed a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) using the Snowballing technique to investigate these techniques, the information presented in the test plan/case, the languages used to specify the requirements, and finally, the steps proposed by the techniques. Results: techniques such as Model-based testing (MBT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are the most used, mainly based on requirements specified through Natural Language that can be structured or not, as well as UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams. We also extracted and presented a series of languages and tools developed, and some are under development that perform this generation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rodrigues A., Vilela J. and Silva C. (2024). A Systematic Mapping Study on Techniques for Generating Test Cases from Requirements. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS; ISBN 978-989-758-699-6, SciTePress, pages 141-148. DOI: 10.5220/0012551900003705

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds24,
author={Alessandro Rodrigues and Jéssyka Vilela and Carla Silva},
title={A Systematic Mapping Study on Techniques for Generating Test Cases from Requirements},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS},
year={2024},
pages={141-148},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012551900003705},
isbn={978-989-758-699-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS
TI - A Systematic Mapping Study on Techniques for Generating Test Cases from Requirements
SN - 978-989-758-699-6
AU - Rodrigues A.
AU - Vilela J.
AU - Silva C.
PY - 2024
SP - 141
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0012551900003705
PB - SciTePress