Glinz
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | SCENT - Scenario-Based Validation and Test of Software | ||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | A scenario is a description of a sequence of interactions between a user and a system. In software engineering scenarios are used to capture and model external system behavior as perceived by a (potential) user. SCENT is a method supporting requirements elicitation, analysis and definition by creating scenarios in a structured way, validating the scenarios with the customer/user and formalizing them into statecharts. From the statecharts test cases are derived which serve as a basis for integration and system test. The main ideas of the project are: 1. To use scenarios in requirements analysis as well as in system testing, thus profiting on the similarities of the two related activities (both being user centered; the first aiming at capturing users wants and needs – that is the requirements -, the second trying to demonstrate that the system meets those requirements), 2. To validate scenarios firstly by defining a stringent iterative procedure to create scenarios, having them reviewed by users regularly, and finally by formalizing scenarios thus exposing inconsistencies, ambiguities and incompleteness in the scenario descriptions, 3. To define a systematic way to use scenarios for the generation of test cases for system test. Weitere Informationen |
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| Publications / Publikationen | J. Ryser (2003). Szenarienbasiertes Validieren und Testen von Softwaresystemen [Scenario-based validation and test of software systems (in German)]. Doctoral Thesis, University of Zurich.J. Ryser, M. Glinz (2001). Dependency Charts as a Means to Model Inter-Scenario Dependencies. In G. Engels, A. Oberweis and A. Zündorf (eds.): Modellierung 2001. GI-Workshop, Bad Lippspringe, Germany. GI-Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics, Vol. P-1. 71-80.J. Ryser, M. Glinz (2000). Using Dependency Charts to Improve Scenario-Based Testing, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Testing Computer Software (TCS2000), Washington D.C., June 2000.J. Ryser, M. Glinz (1999). A Scenario-Based Approach to Validating and Testing Software Systems Using Statecharts. Proc. 12th International Conference on Software and Systems Engineering and their Applications, Paris, Dec 1999.J. Ryser, M. Glinz (1999). A Practical Approach to Validating and Testing Software Systems Using Scenarios, Proceedings QWE'99: Third International Software Quality Week Europe, Brussels, Nov 1999.Weitere Informationen | ||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | SCENT, Scenario, Requirements specification, Validation, Test, Test cases, Test case generation, System test | ||||
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| Other links to external web pages | http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/rerg | ||||
| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), KTI, Private Sector (e.g. Industry) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jan 1997 to Mar 2001 |