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In the context of offshore outsourcing, in order to validate the requirements of a stakeholder (the contractor) against the actual behavior of an implementation under test (IUT) developed by the contracted, it is necessary to have a requirement specification language from which test cases can be generated and executed on an actual IUT. Code-based testing tools are limited to unit testing and do not tackle validation per se. Conversely, model-based testing tools support the derivation of test cases from a requirements model. But such test cases are not necessarily executable and those tools that claim ’test execution’ in fact offer symbolic execution, which is carried out using a model of the IUT, not the actual IUT. Here, we overview a requirements specification language and its corresponding fully implemented framework, that support the validation of IUT-independent requirements against actual IUT behavior, as required by offshore outsourcing.
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Arnold, D., Corriveau, JP., Shi, W. (2010). Reconciling Offshore Outsourcing with Model Based Testing. In: Nordio, M., Joseph, M., Meyer, B., Terekhov, A. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13784-6_3
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