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An Approach for Model-Driven Design and Generation of Performance Test Cases with UML and MARTE

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Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2011)

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High-quality software needs to meet both functional and non-functional requirements. In some cases, software must accomplish specific performance requirements, but most of the time, only high-level performance requirements are available: it is up to the developer to decide what performance should be expected from each part of the system. In this work, we show several algorithms that infer the required throughput and time limits for each action in an UML activity diagram from a global constraint and some optional local annotations. After studying their theoretical and empirical performance, we propose an approach for generating performance test cases from the activity diagram after it has been implemented as code. Our approach decouples the performance analysis model from the implementation details of the code to be tested.

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  1. Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain

    Antonio García-Domínguez & Inmaculada Medina-Bulo

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain

    Mariano Marcos-Bárcena

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  2. Department of Systems and Informatics, INSTICC / IPS, Rua do Vale de Chaves, 2910-761, Estefanilha, Setúbal, Portugal

    José Cordeiro

  3. IICREST, P.O. Box 104, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria

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García-Domínguez, A., Medina-Bulo, I., Marcos-Bárcena, M. (2013). An Approach for Model-Driven Design and Generation of Performance Test Cases with UML and MARTE. In: Escalona, M.J., Cordeiro, J., Shishkov, B. (eds) Software and Data Technologies. ICSOFT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36177-7_9

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