Test-driven conceptual modeling: a method and a tool

Conceptual Schema-Centric Development (CSCD) has beenquali ed as a grand challenge for many researchers in Information Systems(IS). It reformulates the historical goal of automating IS buildingbut emphasizing that the Conceptual Schema (CS) should be the centerof the development. CSCD requires explicit, complete, executable andcorrect CSs. In this context, testing becomes critical in the conceptualmodeling activity. Test-Driven Conceptual Modeling (TDCM) is proposedas a new development method to obtain a correct and complete CS.TDCM applies to conceptual modeling the essential ideas of Test-DrivenDevelopment(TDD), an emerging test- rst eXtreme Programming (XP)method. Our research proposal pretends to contribute to the IS researchcommunity by developing the TDCM method and a tool to put it intopractice.Peer Reviewe