Objectives

Review OO principles and UML diagrams

Review architecture principles

Discuss major software system models

Utilize collaborations to capture design

Review elements of test discipline

Review principles of black box testing

Identify test cases from use case model

Discuss testing and traceability

Define test procedures to implement tests

Description

Test Case Design with UML teaches the software engineer the fundamental techniques to apply the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to building a test model for a software application. Starting with a refresher of basic objectoriented principles and the UML, the course then introduces a “universal” process pattern for modeling the behavior and structure of dynamic systems. UML collaborations are applied to capture the behavior and structure using collaboration, sequence, and class diagrams. This pattern is applied to deriving a test model from the use case model. The test model consists of test cases that identify what requirements need to be tested (functional, usability, reliability, performance, etc) and test procedures that represent the details of how to test a segment of one or many test cases. Collaborations are used as test case realizations that contain the test cases and test procedures for a specific use case. Students learn to apply the graphical notation for the most used UML diagrams – communication, sequence, and class diagrams.

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