Model-based Testing: The Key to Testing Industrialization

Customers who want “more, faster, cheaper” put pressure on the development schedule, usually leaving less time for testing. The solution is to parallelize testing and development so that they proceed together. But how, especially when the requirements and software are constantly changing? Model-based testing (MBT) distills the testing effort down to the essential business processes and requirements, capitalizing on abstractions to reduce the costs of change and improve test data management. MBT facilitates a continuous and systematic transformation from business requirements to an automated or manual test repository. MBT permits re-use of the same test design for both integration testing-end-to-end and system-to-system-and functional testing-system, acceptance, and regression. Bruno Legeard discusses how to achieve key test goals by employing MBT: automating test generation, accelerating test automation, improving manual test effectiveness, and maintaining an organized test repository. The bottom line is that model-based testing is a sure way to align your testing goals and your testware repository with business needs.