Specifying Executable or Nonexecutable Acceptance Test Cases for Event Processing Applications
Johannes Weiss, Alexander Schill · 2016
This paper presents the results of an empirical experiment conducted in an academic environment with the aim of comparing the specification of acceptance test cases with executable and nonexecutable test description formats in the domain of event processing application development. In the experiment subjects had to specify functional test cases for given requirements. We evaluated the effort, test coverage and perceived difficulty. Our results show a positive effect on using the executable test description with regard to the effort of test specification.