Generating iInput documents for testing XML queries with ToXgene

Abstract

Modern software technologies use the XML language as a preferred means of data interchange and representation, which can be accessed using XML queries. Testing these queries can be difficult because they use complex data as input in form of XML documents. This work addresses this problem by defining a query-aware procedure for design and generation of test input data for XML queries. The test process is based on the category-partition method and permits the identification of categories and choices in the XML query and schema in order to obtain test case specifications. These test case specifications are mapped to the input language of the ToXgene data generator and then XML documents are generated by running it