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Testing Business Processes Using TTCN-3

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Business Process Management (BPM) applications in the medical domain pose challenging testing problems that result from parallel execution of test behaviors performed by different actors. Hospitals nowadays function with the principle of pools of personnel. Each pool addresses a specific functionality and each member of the pool can pick any task that is proposed to the pool. The challenge for BPM testing is in the existence of dependencies between actors and the corresponding test description where the stimuli sent to the BPM that is the system under test (SUT) by one actor produces responses that affect a selected number of other actors belonging to a pool. Unit testing of such systems has proven to be of limited efficiency in detecting faults that can be detected only during parallel execution of test components representing actors. We propose an architecture based on the TTCN-3 model of separation of concern and its intensive parallel test component (PTC) concept which provides solutions that are beyond traditional telecommunication systems testing and which have revealed opportunities for improving TTCN-3.

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The authors would like to thank Testing Technologies IST GmbH for providing us the necessary tool — TTworkbench to carry out this research as well as funding from MITACS.

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    Bernard Stepien, Kavya Mallur & Liam Peyton

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    Markus Scheidgen

  3. Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

    Ina Schieferdecker

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Stepien, B., Mallur, K., Peyton, L. (2015). Testing Business Processes Using TTCN-3. In: Fischer, J., Scheidgen, M., Schieferdecker, I., Reed, R. (eds) SDL 2015: Model-Driven Engineering for Smart Cities. SDL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9369. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24912-4_18

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