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Model-Driven Development (MDD) is a well-established area in software engineering. Today, it is applied in many sectors of industry to support various activities in systems lifecycle, from requirements to verification and validation. One of the first, and most notable modeling languages for specifying test cases for complex software systems is the UML Testing Profile (UTP). Unfortunately, the problem with such a language is that the scope of concepts and modeling elements is too broad in order to solve specific problems. In this paper, we introduce a textual domain-specific language, the UTP-based Testing Language (Ubtl) that allows specifying test cases from UTP. This approach eases the use of UTP, because only particular aspects are captured within the language and a test engineer is obligated to use transformable constructs only. The remainder of this paper consists of an application of Ubtl on a system and a test architecture from the automotive domain.
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A common lifecycle model for safety-critical systems [7].
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Iber, J., Kajtazović, N., Macher, G., Höller, A., Rauter, T., Kreiner, C. (2015). A Textual Domain-Specific Language Based on the UML Testing Profile. In: Desfray, P., Filipe, J., Hammoudi, S., Pires, L. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27869-8_9
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