Test Script Generation Based on Design Documents for Web Application Testing

Testing is critical for software quality assurance, but as most of this work is done manually, it is an area ripe for cost reductions. One good approach to cost reduction is to produce test scripts, the inputs of the test execution tool, and to execute tests automatically. However, when applying this approach, making and maintaining the test scripts are costly tasks. To solve this problem, we propose an approach to automatically generate test scripts from design documents, which are artifacts of the design process, using model-based testing. We confirm effectiveness of our approach by comparing it to an existing approach.