People ask often from us if model-based testing with Conformiq Designer can be a good fit for e.g. Agile, Test-Driven Development, Scrum or RUP. Now instead of providing a short answer ("yes"), I will try to explain in this post how model-based testing changes a software process, where that change occurs, and what is its impact. I will also give ...
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One complaint against computer-generated test cases is that they differ from those designed by humans. Somehow, computer-generated test cases have a different feel to them, and it is sometimes difficult for humans to grasp what is the crux or focal point of a test case produced by a model-based test generator, such as Conformiq Designer™. But why ...
According to the recent model-based testing user survey (see here), the respondents saw on the average a 59% reduction in escaped bugs, 17% reduction in testing costs, and 25% reduction in testing time.
What do these figures mean? Let's say that a (software) product has 100 defects (that can manifest themselves) when it enters the testing ...
According to the recent model-based testing users survey, the top three problems MBT users face are in this order (see p. 26 of the report):
Modeling is too hard
Models blow up (the tool in use does not scale to complex models)
Generated tests miss bugs
These are all real problems and we have certainly seen customers face them (after ...
Dr. Stephan Schulz, Conformiq's CTO, will give a presentation on "Automating AUTOSAR Functional Test Design with Model-Based Testing" at the SAE 2012 World Congress, to be held in Detroit, USA in April 2012.
The SAE 2012 World Congress theme, Get Connected, is said to represent the new and diverse connections that will drive significant ...
Conformiq Designer 4.4.2 is out. Here a concise summary of the changed and new features. (more…)
Combinatorial test data generators generate data tables for testing. The most basic, commonly used combinatorial data generation strategy is what is known as pairwise testing, all-pairs testing, covering arrays or Taguchi designs. (The term orthogonal array is sometimes used also, but it actually refers to a method for designing statistical ...
Let's assume (this obviously a much simplified setting) that you are planning to release a new product version that will generate $1mn in sales. There may or may not be one critical bug left in the version. If there actually is a critical bug, this will cost to you in terms of product replacements, customer supports and customer disloyalty total ...
On his model-based testing blog, Michael Mlynarski writes:
In this session we have discussed the ROI of software testing techniques. More than 20 experienced testers or test managers had difficulties on formulating the ROI of any testing technique. Two main arguments were about reducing the costs for bug-fixes in late stages of the development ...