Using Dependency Charts to Improve Scenario-Based Testing Management of Inter-Scenario Relationships: Depicting and Managing Dependencies between Scenarios
Johannes Ryser, Martin Glinz · 2000
Scenarios (use cases) are used in many modern software engineering methods for capturing requirements and specifying a system. Yet prominent and renowned approaches like the UML (Unified Modeling Language [1]) are missing a concept for modeling dependencies and relations between scenarios and offer only little support for the management and description of scenarios and inter-scenario relationships. Furthermore, analysis scenarios are hardly ever used in testing, even though scenarios form a kind of abstract test cases. In this paper we introduce a new kind of chart and a notation to model dependencies between scenarios. We call it dependency chart. We introduce a method to use scenarios and dependency charts in testing to support testers to systematically develop test cases for system test.