Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: As an important way of assuring software quality, software testing generates and executes test cases to identify software failures. Many strategies have been proposed to guide test-case generation, such as source code-based approaches and methods based on bug reports. Requirements-based test generation (RBTG) constructs test cases based on specified requirements, aligning with user needs and expectations, without requiring access to the source code. Since its introduction in 1994, there have been many contributions to the development of RBTG, including various approaches, implementations, tools, assessment and evaluation methods, and applications. This article provides a comprehensive survey on RBTG, categorizing requirements types, classifying approaches, investigating types of test cases, summarizing available tools, and analyzing experimental evaluations. This article also summarizes the domains and industrial applications of RBTG and discusses some open research challenges and potential future work.
DOI: 10.1145/3771727
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4415106599