Model-Driven Testing: Using the UML Testing Profile

Model-driven development has become the most important new paradigm in software development and has already demonstrated considerable impact in reducing time to market and improving product quality. However, the development of high-quality systems not only requires systematic development processes but also systematic test processes.

This book is about systematic, model-driven test processes in the context of UML. As UML provides only limited means for the design and development of test artifacts, a consortium was formed by the Object Management Group (OMG) to develop a UML profile for model-driven testing – the UML Testing Profile (UTP), an official OMG standard since 2005.

Written by the original members of this standardization group, this book shows you how to use UML to test complex software systems. The authors introduce UTP step-by-step, using a case study that illustrates how UTP can be used for test modeling and test specification. You’ll learn how UTP concepts can be used for functional and non-functional testing, with example applications and best practices for user-interfaces and service oriented architectures. In addition, the authors demonstrate how to apply UTP using frameworks like TTCN-3 and the JUnit test framework for Java.

This book is the definitive reference for the only UML-based test specification language, written by the creators of that language. It is supported by an Internet site that provides information on the latest tools and uses of the profile.

Paul Baker is Corporate Portfolio Manager for Testing Technologies of Motorola’s
European System and Software Engineering Research Laboratory.

Zhen Ru Dai is Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) with special research interests on system modeling and testing.

Jens Grabowski is Professor for Applied Computer Science in Göttingen, where he heads a research group on Software Engineering for Distributed Systems.

Øystein Haugen has been involved in standardizing specification and design languages since 1989. He is a Senior Researcher at Sintef and Associate Professor at University of Oslo

Ina Schieferdecker is Professor at the TU Berlin and also heads the research group on modeling and testing at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS).

Clay Williams is the Manager of the Software Quality and Testing Research Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.