Testing and requirements

[unnamedharald]

I'm trying to A) map requirements to test cases and B) integrate scenarios with their related test cases.  Is there any doc besides the "help"?  Also, under Scenario Testing there is supposedly a "Defined Tests" capability which is described as a "List of defined tests associated with this element." but there is nothing like that shown in the scenario test cases window.  It sounds like a way to associate individual pre-existing tests with a scenario.  EA seems so close to letting me do what I want but ends up being extremely frustrating instead.  Any help would be appreciated.  One final thought: would it be useful if tests could "stand by themselves" (like requirements) so we wouldn't have to search elements for them-- or am I missing something else?

Thanks

[mikewhit]

Mapping Tests and Requirements is about the only weak point of EA.
But, since these are not part of UML proper, there is no defined path to improvement.

I don't think Sparx will address this area properly until there is some industry consensus.

I believe Rhapsody has some form of model-based test generation: nice - at a price !!

[bollwahnk]

If internal requirements, constraints, and scenarios are attached to either a Requirement or Use Case element (or any other element), EA allows them to be migrated into test cases for that element.  Test cases are divided into Unit, Integration, System, Acceptence, and Scenario groups.

1) Open the Testing window (Alt+3).
2) Select the element in either a diagram or the project browser.
3) Select the tab for the test type.
4) Right-click in the Testing window opens a menu to allow you to enter, modify, import requirements, constraints, or scenarios as test cases.  It also allows you to import tests from another element.