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In this paper a proposal of a new black-box unit testing method based on decision tables is given. Its main part is an automatic generation of test cases using rule-based specification of a module. The tables containing rules are described in a formalized way using the XTT2 design method for rule-based systems. The paper also provides a presentation of a prototypical framework uses proposed method. This tool was designed as an Eclipse plugin which generates JUnit test cases. The proposed method can automate and improve the software testing process.
The paper is supported by the AGH UST Grant 11.11.120.859.
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Nalepa, G.J., Kutt, K., Kaczor, K. (2014). Can the Generation of Test Cases for Unit Testing be Automated with Rules?. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Zurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8468. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07176-3_47
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