Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page 50) Best Practices Special TEST CASE GENERATION, UML, AND ECLIPSE Listing One that is, to each of the test cases that may be generated from the diagram using the AQUABUS algorithm. • Graphical design and management of diagram elements, allowing the insertion of specific states (see Figure 1) like any other CASE tool. It lets you save diagrams in XMI format, as in Listing One. • Management of data input activities both graphically (Figure 1) and via dialogs (Figure 2). The form is available for each specific activity related to data input to allow entering value ranges and equivalence classes both for valid and invalid data. Of course, there are also specific fields in the form for entering probability of use and cost of possible failures for each option. • Test case generation—the essential objective of AGAPE. Once the activity diagram is specified and modeled, the tool generates paths from the beginning to the end of the use case. Each of these paths corresponds to a test case that can be stored as a text file (in XML format) and imported by existing automatic test execution tools. Listing Two shows the test cases generated from Figure 1 where there are only three paths because we have only established two data to be tested in the activity AD1. In general, data input activities should include several equiv- alent classes (valid and invalid values) that are represented as different paths in the diagram. Figure 3, an overview of the design, illustrates the classes that let AGAPE model the extended activity diagrams with the required characteristics to comply with the properties of the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (www.eclipse.org/gef ) GEF and Eclipse Modeling Framework. The basic element is ActivityDiagram broken down into elements Children that may be linked (Connections) among them (each link with probability of use and severity of possible failures). Listing Two 50 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l November 2008 http://www.eclipse.org/gef http://www.ddj.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer's Notebook Saving Open Source Conversations iPhone Building Your Own Web Server Green Telnet What's New In Boost Threads? Testing Service Oriented Architectures Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse Unit Testing Web Services C3 Programming The Agile Edge Swaine's Flames Effective Concurrency Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page BB1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page BB2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page Cover1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page Cover2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 3) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Contents (Page 4) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Contents (Page 5) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 6) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 7) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 8) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 9) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Alia Vox (Page 10) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Alia Vox (Page 11) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer Diaries (Page 12) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer Diaries (Page 13) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer's Notebook (Page 14) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer's Notebook (Page 15) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 16) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 17) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 18) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 19) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Conversations (Page 20) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Conversations (Page 21) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 22) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 23) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 24) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 25) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 26) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 27) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 28) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 29) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 30) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 31) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 32) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 33) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 34) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 35) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 36) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 37) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 38) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 39) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? 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(Page 45) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 46) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 47) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 48) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 49) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 50) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 51) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 52) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 53) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 54) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 55) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 56) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 57) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 58) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 59) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 60) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 61) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 62) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 63) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 64) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 65) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 66) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 67) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 68) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 69) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 70) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 71) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page 72) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page Cover3) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page Cover4)
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