Generating Natural Language Descriptions of Z Test Cases

CRISTIÁ, MAXIMILIANO; PLÜSS, BRIAN

Conferencia; Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference; 2010

The Association for Computer Linguistics

Critical software most often requires an independent validationand verification (IVV). IVV is usually performed by domain experts, who are not familiar with specific, many times formal, development technologies. In addition, model-based testing (MBT) is apromising testing technique for the verification of critical software. Test cases generated by MBT tools are logical descriptions. The problem is, then, to provide natural language (NL) descriptions of these test cases, making them accessible to domain expert. In this paper, we present ongoing research aimed at finding a suitable method for generating NL descriptions from test cases in a formal specification language. A first prototype has been developed and applied to a real-world project in the aerospace sector.