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Software engineering seeks novel methods and approaches for dealing with growing challenges, such as the quality control of software. Testing is an important area in the software lifecycle. In this chapter we present a practical rule-based method for supporting the unit testing process. First our approach to the use of rules in software unit testing is presented. Then we focus on decision table based testing. A practical tool implementing the method was developed, discussed, and evaluated.
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See http://junit.org.
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However, in a general situation this is not always the case. While our tool currently supports test case generation for classes, our approach could easily be extended.
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Nalepa, G.J. (2018). Using Rules to Support Software Testing. In: Modeling with Rules Using Semantic Knowledge Engineering. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 130. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66655-6_12
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