(invited Talk) Agility vs. Model-based Testing: a Fair Play?

Agile manifesto defines principles for a light-weight software development process aiming at an improved customer satisfaction. Automated testing plays an important role in fulfilling these principles, because it enables efficient execution of test scripts for checking the quality of delivered software. However, the implementation and the maintenance of the test scripts can be very tedious and error-prone. In order to deal with that, model-based testing extends the automated test execution by test design and test implementation. Thus, model-based testing can speed up the test automation and improve the maintenance of test scripts. Nevertheless, introducing model-based testing requires some initial and some continual efforts, like creating test models, buying or developing tools, etc. In this talk, we will discuss how model-based testing can support agile development without conflicting with the principles of agile manifesto. Index Terms Agile manifesto, Automated testing, Model-based Testing