Multi-level Tests for Model Driven Web Applications

Piero Fraternali; Massimo Tisi

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13911-6_11

International Conference on Web Engineering

ICWE 2010: Web Engineering pp 158-172

Multi-level Tests for Model Driven Web Applications

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Piero Fraternali
Massimo Tisi

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13911-6_11

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6189)

Cite this paper as:: Fraternali P., Tisi M. (2010) Multi-level Tests for Model Driven Web Applications. In: Benatallah B., Casati F., Kappel G., Rossi G. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

Abstract

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) advocates the use of models and transformations to support all the tasks of software development, from analysis to testing and maintenance. Modern MDE methodologies employ multiple models, to represent the different perspectives of the system at a progressive level of abstraction. In these situations, MDE frameworks need to work on a set of interdependent models and tranformations, which may evolve over time. This paper presents a model transformation framework capable of aligning two streams of transformations: the forward engineering stream that goes from the Computation Independent Model to the running code, and the testing stream that goes from the Computation Independent Test specification to an executable test script. The “vertical” transformations composing the two streams are kept aligned, by means of “horizontal” mappings that can be applied after a change in the modeling framework (e.g., an update in the PIM-to-code transformation due to a change in the target deployment technology). The proposed framework has been implemented and is under evaluation in a real-world MDE tool.

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