Model transformers for test generation from system models

The early integration of test development into the system development process becomes more and more important. By doing so, design mistakes and implementation faults can be detected in an early stage of the system design and implementation process, i.e. before the newly developed system is shipped to the customer. This allows for reducing the overall development time and costs significantly. This paper reports on results in integrating testing into a modelbased development process. Based on a common MOF-based infrastructure, initial test are automatically derived from the system models. Subsequently, an executable test code can be automatically generated from the test models and being applied to the final system for quality assessment.