Cascading Arbiter

It is difficult to predict whether a not specified and newly explored behavior of the system under test is erroneous or not. Therefore, it is required to go beyond the pure functional specification of pass/fail-criteria. The cascading arbitration specification facility of the UTP 2 standard and its implementation within Fokus!MBT enables testers to model sophisticated pass/fail-criteria in particular for non-functional test evaluation such as fault tolerance testing, security or performance testing.

Input(s):

• UTP2-based arbitration specification
• Result of comparison of expected vs actual result
• Specification of user-defined verdicts

Main feature(s):

• Verdict calculation on three levels (test action, test case and test set)
• Cascading reuse of arbitration specifications for different arbitration targets
• User-defined verdicts and verdict calculation rules

Output(s):

• (User-defined) verdicts for test actions, test cases and test sets

Based on the UML Testing Profile 2.

Test engineers.

Per request.