Generation of Scripts for Performance Testing Based on UML Models

Abstract—Software testing process has a high cost when compared to the other stages of software development. Automation of software testing through reuse of software artifacts (e.g. models) is a good alternative for mitigating these costs and making the process much more efficient and efficacious. Model-Based Testing (MBT) is a technique to automatic generation of testing artifacts based on software models. For software development, the most spread modeling language in either the industrial or academic environments is UML. In such environments, it is desirable to reuse UML models also for MBT, avoiding re-building a different model exclusively for testing automation. These are the main reasons that make these semi-formal models an alternative to implementing MBT. Even though there are a lot of testing tools available commercially, to the best of our knowledge, none of them fully uses MBT. Therefore, this paper describes a case study showing how to implement the MBT process to automate test scripts generation and execution in a real-world, context. Furthermore, our solution is generated automatically by a Software Produc