04/16/2010 09:46:39 AM EST
Great article. Thanks for the information. Another tool that I've looked into is http://testoptimal.com/. An integrated approach to testing web applications using model based testing.
United StatesRob
04/19/2010 11:15:56 AM EST
As you suggest, we agree in principle, but probably not precisely in terminology. There are acceptance tests that are specified the user and there are acceptance tests specified by developers. For the response time example you mentioned, the acceptance test specified by the user might be the response time from a button press to a result display. The overall programmer designer could subdivide this test into developer acceptance tests for the network time and for the server time. As you suggest, the server time test helps validate whether the system is responding within the time, but the test does not help in figuring out how to make the server deliver quickly. The tests below this point are definitely functional tests. The gray area is whether the server time test should be called a functional test or an acceptance test.
United StatesKen Pugh
04/25/2010 09:58:27 PM EST
As Rob pointed out, another MBT tool is TestOptimal. It's a simple yet effective MBT tool for testing web applications. Check out this 4-part tutorial by Ray Vizzone of Recommended Testing Labs: "Model-Based Testing for Web Applications with TestOptimal", http://blog.testlabs.com/2009/10/model-based-testing-for-web.html.
United StatesYaxiong
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