The last couple of months, we have done a lot of research about test effort estimation and test exit criteria. We know from our industrial experience how important a good test effort estimation is for planning resources, schedules and risks. Unfortunately the effort is often estimated by rule of thumb. Budget and time overruns are [...]

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Hi all, today, the first pilot training on the Certified Model-Based Tester (CMBT) was finished at iSQI in Potsdam, Germany. Fundamental knowledge about models, modeling taxonomies, test generation, process integration, and much more was covered. Though this was the very first prototype of the training, the quality of slides, presentations, and discussions was already very [...]

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Dear all, Please note that we run the ATAMI-Workshop (ATAMI: Advances in Testing – Academia Meets Industry) in Berlin on May 23/24. The main topics of the ATAMI series are advanced testing technologies, like model-based testing. Each year, we define a new specialization of the workshop. This year, the workshop will be focused on advanced [...]

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Hi all, we are (again) thinking about the essence of model-based testing. One of the major aspects is the quality gain that can be reached by using MBT. This gain strongly depends on the quality of the test cases. And since the test cases are generated automatically and there are few ways to insert the [...]

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Call for papers: Workshop of Quality of Model-Based Testing (QuoMBaT) http://www.model-based-testing.de/quombat13/   Model-based testing (MBT) is an advanced testing technique that is becoming more and more popular in the software testing community. Several experience reports and success stories have been presented and published so far. However, the capabilities and limitations of MBT still need to [...]

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Spec Explorer 2010 is one of the most successful model-based testing tools. Unfortunately, there is only a Spec Explorer extension to Visual Studio (VS) 2010. Many questions of whether and when Spec Explorer will be available for VS 2012 have been asked in the original Spec Explorer forum. The answers varied, and the forum has [...]

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Model Based Testing nicely deals with modern development methodologies. But also in traditional development projects, this way of testing has many advantages over other testing methods. However, this is highly dependent on the way we organize our MBT testing process and what role is played by the tester. Should the tester blindly assume an already [...]

mbt · modelling · usage

The second Model-Based Testing User Conference was held in Estonia`s capital Tallinn this year. Like last year`s conference, the focus was to convene active users of MBT rather than academic researchers. The first keynote was held by Jan Plasberg from Skype. Although not directly covering MBT, this talk nevertheless was enlightening because it illustrated the [...]

conference · mbtuc · tools

MBT 2013 Eighth Workshop on Model-Based Testing March 17, 2013, Rome, Italy Homepage Satellite workshop of ETAPS 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS The workshop is devoted to model-based testing of both software and hardware. Model-based testing uses models describing the required behavior of the system under consideration to guide such efforts as test selection and test [...]

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From 1998 to 2004 Florian Prester studied Computational Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. After his degree he worked as research assistant at the Regionales RechenZentrum Erlangen-Nuremberg (RRZE) with special interest on network security and abstraction mechanism. Since 2007 he has been working for the sepp.med GmbH, where since 2009 he is CEO responsible for [...]

germany · interview · mbt