Software Testing and Development Techniques using UML (Unified Modeling Language)

Abstract

This paper presents the software testing and model based software development with the use of Unified Modeling Language. Software testing is an empirical investigation that is conducted to provide developers and other stakeholders with information about the system under test. The UML is a tool for specifying software systems that include standardized diagrams to define illustrate and visually map or model a software system's design and structure. This testing process is based on using the modeling techniques that are defined in Unified modeling language. UML structural and behavioral specification diagrams have been used by testing researchers for generation of test scenarios and test data. In software engineering, system modeling is the process of formulating a representation of a real system in an abstract way to understand its behavior. Software testing encourages reusing these models for testing purpose. As object-oriented paradigm becomes more mature, software development industry and researchers turn their attention towards the paradigm.