Recruiting and onboarding software testing professionals are complex and cost intensive activities. Whether onboarding is successful and sustainable depends on both the employee as well as the organization and is influenced by a number of often highly individual factors. Therefore, we propose the Software Testing Onboarding Model (STORM) for sustainably onboarding software testing professionals based on existing frameworks and models taking into account onboarding processes, sustainability, and test processes. In addition, we provide detailed instructions on how to apply the model to real-world onboarding processes.

This paper presents an envisioned approach to AI-based enhancements of test models in the industrial model-based testing tool TEMPPO Designer. Based on an overview of the tool, we present the required data collector, the AI-based data analyzer and ways to integrate the results into TEMPPO Designer.

In this paper we present the results of an empirical case study performed at the European Space Agency (ESA). In this major project, the various challenges for testing were tackled using a model-based approach for test design and the generation of executable test automation scripts. An evaluation of this approach''s efficiency identified significant cost savings and quality improvements.

This paper introduces a new method for generating test data that combines the benefits of equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis and cause-effect analysis. It is suitable for problems involving complex linear dependencies between two or more variables. The method aims at covering all semantic dependencies plus all (n-dimensional) boundaries with a minimum set of test data. To overcome the mathematical complexity of the method, a main goal of the research project was to develop a user-friendly tool that allows users to specify dependencies in a simple language and generates appropriate test data automatically. The tool has been incorporated into the IDATG (Integrating Design and Automated Test case Generation) tool-set and validated in a number of case studies.

The IDATG (Integrating Design and Automated Test Case Generation) specification technique and tool is introduced. It is designed for the automated generation of test cases during the testing of interactive industrial applications. In addition to checking the application's usability, IDATG supports both the specification of the behavior of a user interface and the generation of two types of test case i.e. for GUI coverage and for checking the usability of the application. The test procedure for both cases is based on a particular test process model and on a formal language for representing the user interface. The tool architecture comprises a set of visual editors, a language interpreter and a test case generator. The interface concept on which the components are based enables the tool to be integrated into industrial platforms for defining and executing test cases. A first cost/benefit analysis indicates a significant reduction of effort for test case specification and test result analysis.

Nowadays interactive systems cannot be developed in isolation from workflows and the application domains they are embedded in. Unfortunately, a conceptual gap exists between design representations for interactive systems and workflow specifications. This gap leads to a situation in which it can be checked in a very late stage of development whether an interactive system actually fits into a particular workflow or not. If not, redesign is required and the development costs may be increased dramatically. In order to avoid this worst case, the authors introduce a framework and environment that allows the refinement of workflows to system functions at an implementation-independent layer. In addition, TADEUS (Task Analysis/Design/End User Systems) supports workflow driven prototyping. Developing interactive systems this way not only removes the conceptual gap between workflow models and user interface design representations, but also provides early feedback for the developers through the interpretation of the design representations.