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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2009.16-D.2.213

Traceability of UML Based Test Artifacts Using XML  

Seo, Kwang-Ik (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Choi, Eun-Man (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.16D, no.2, 2009 , pp. 213-222 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
System Test; Traceability; UML Test; Integration Test; Error Traceability;
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