Journal Articles The Journal of Object Technology Year : 2021

Adapting TDL to Provide Testing Support for Executable DSLs.

Abstract

Testing is one of the most prevalent and successful verification and validation (V&V) techniques used in the field of software engineering. While a large number of testing frameworks exist for general-purpose programming languages, providing testing facilities for any given executable Domain Specific Language (xDSL) remains a costly and challenging task. In this context, a standard such as the Test Description Language (TDL) appears as a suitable foundation for the definition of a generic testing approach for xDSLs. Unfortunately, TDL does not provide the domain-specific concepts required to write test cases for a given xDSL and does not include any model execution facilities. Our contribution addresses these limitations and thereby provides a fully generic testing approach for xDSLs based on TDL. Required TDL domain-specific concepts are automatically inferred from the xDSL definition through a model transformation into TDL. Model execution facilities are provided through the definition of a refined operational semantics for TDL. The application of our approach on 5 different xDSLs shows its generality and that it can successfully be used for testing executable models.
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hal-03265196 , version 1 (19-06-2021)

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Faezeh Khorram, Erwan Bousse, Jean-Marie Mottu, Gerson Sunyé. Adapting TDL to Provide Testing Support for Executable DSLs.. The Journal of Object Technology, 2021, 20 (3), pp.6:1-15. ⟨10.5381/jot.2021.20.3.a6⟩. ⟨hal-03265196⟩
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