Automatic Test Generation from UML Sequence Diagrams for Android Mobiles

摘要

Automatic generation of test cases for functional testing is a challenging task. It involves complex sub tasks such as capturing user scenarios, parsing user scenarios to generate test cases, ensuring test coverage criteria, test script generation from test cases, test execution and report generation. In this paper, a method is proposed to generate test cases after parsing Sequence diagram and thereafter generating XML based test cases, and subsequently APK based test scripts for Android mobiles. A tool called Virtual Test Engineer (VTE) has been developed based on this method, which is used for testing several Android applications. In this paper it is explained how navigation through menu tree of Android mobile is achieved through a menu tree data base. The effectiveness of this method is discussed from experimental results. Comparison has been made of the proposed method with others and the proposed method has been found to be more effective.