Recommended Model Based Testing Tools [closed]

Question

Does anyone have any suggestions on what Model Based Testing Tools to use? Is Spec Explorer/SPEC# worth it's weight in tester training?

What I have traditionally done is create a Visio Model where I call out the states and associated variables, outputs and expected results from each state. Then in a completely disconnected way, I data drive my test scripts with those variables based on that model. But, they are not connected. I want a way to create a model, associate the variables in a business friendly way, that will then build the data parameters for the scripts.

I can't be the first person to need this. Is there a tool out there that will do basically that? Short of developing it myself.

Answer 1

You might find the following answer to a similar question helpful:

http://testing.stackexchange.com/questions/92/how-to-get-started-with-model-based-testing

In it, I mention:

UML Pad http://web.tiscali.it/ggbhome/umlpad/umlpad.htm A list of free UML Tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_UML_tools Our Pairwise and combinatorial test case generator (which generates tests for you automatically based on a model you create - even if you don't create a UML model): http://hexawise.com

Incidentally, as explained in the answer I link to above, I focus my energies (research, tool development focus, passion, etc.) on the second part of your question - generating efficient and effective sets of tests that maximize coverage in a minimum number of test cases.

Justin (Founder of Hexawise)

Answer 2

I think an updated version of the "Spec Explorer for Visual Studio" power tool is supposed to be released soon - it's much easier to ramp up on than the current version, but still takes some time to learn.

If you want to start smaller, nmodel (also from microsoft) is a good place to start.