A Requirement-Based Software Testing Framework: An Industrial Practice

Testing heterogeneous software systems raises new research challenges. Requirement-based testing is a promising approach for testing such systems. Research in Motion (RIM), whose main product is indeed heterogeneous, has initiated an academia-industry collaborative project to investigate the automation of their requirement-based testing process. In this paper, we first identify research challenges observed through that project and then, in order to address those challenges, propose a framework that assists testers in three steps of test planning, generation, and regression.