Establishing a service-oriented tool chain for the development of domain-independent MBT scenarios

Since software systems become more and more complex, the efforts for developing, documenting and executing meaningful test cases increases. Testing is a vital, but time- and resource-consuming activity. To avoid running out of time or budget, new test methodologies had to be established in order to increase reliable, yet maintainable test scenarios. In the last years the Model-Driven idea matures to the most promising approaches to solve current problems in the software development domain. Model-Based Testing adopts these concepts to exploit their benefits for testing area. In this paper an integrated tool chain (called FOKUS!MBT) is discussed, to enable a Model-based development of testing scenarios. It is based on a canonical metamodel for testing concerns and a service-oriented model storage and exchange infrastructure, that allows a flexible, yet extensible adaptation to different test process requirements. Its premise is to establish a tooling architecture for the specification and development of a domain-independent Model-based testing scenario.