UML 2.0 testing profile

Abstract

In this chapter, the U2TP has been introduced. U2TP is a new UML profile which provides means to specify tests based on UML 2.0. By doing so, a UML system model may be re-used for testing purposes. This enhances the cooperation between system designers and test designers. Furthermore, existing system models can be provided to the tester for a proper and more detailed test specification. This saves time and reduces cost for test specification. Besides the test concepts, the U2TP also introduces rules to map U2TP to JUnit and TTCN-3, respectively. By doing so, the test model can be executed based on the mappings and the existing JUnit and TTCN-3 compilers. In the chapter, the usage of the U2TP has been shown by means of a case study. Also, the mappings between the languages are demonstrated on the case study. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.