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Traceability of UML Based Test Artifacts Using XML

XML을 이용한 UML 기반 시험 산출물의 추적

  • 서광익 (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 최은만 (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Published : 2009.04.30
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Abstract

Traceability has been held as an important factor in testing activities as well as model driven development. Vertical traceability affords us opportunities to improve manageability from models and test cases to code in testing and debugging phase. Traceability also overcomes difficulties by the separation between abstraction levels when we trace errors from models to source code after test. To support a rigorous test this paper proposes XML based traceability which vertically trace from model and test case to source code. This paper explains how the traceability works and finds out error spots Through experiments using a concrete example.

추적성 개념은 모델 중심의 개발에서만이 아니라 테스트를 위하여 매우 중요한 요소이다. 어떤 기능을 중심으로 높은 추상수준에서부터 낮은 수준의 프로그램까지 수직적인 추적은 모델로부터 테스트와 디버깅 단계에 이르기까지 시스템을 잘 관리할 수 있게 한다. 또한 테스트 단계에서 발견한 결함에 대한 오류를 추적할 때 발생하는 단계별 추상 수준의 분리를 추적가능성으로 극복하게 한다. 이 논문에서는 XML을 기반으로 모델과 시험사례 그리고 소스코드를 수직적으로 추적하여 더욱 엄격한 테스트가 되는 방법을 제안한다. 실험을 통하여 추적이란 개념이 어떻게 작동하고 오류 부분을 찾아내는지 보이며 구체적인 사례를 이용하여 방법을 소개한다.

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