ACL Anthology Network (All About NLP) (beta) The Association Of Computational Linguistics Anthology Network |
ACL ID | W10-4218 |
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Title | Generating Natural Language Descriptions of Z Test Cases |
Venue | International Conference on Natural Language Generation |
Session | Main Conference |
Year | 2010 |
Authors |
Critical software most often requires an independent validation and verification (IVV). IVV is usually performed by do- main experts, who are not familiar with specific, many times formal, development technologies. In addition, model-based testing (MBT) is a promising testing tech- nique for the verification of critical soft- ware. Test cases generated by MBT tools are logical descriptions. The problem is, then, to provide natural language (NL) de- scriptions of these test cases, making them accessible to domain experts. In this pa- per, we present ongoing research aimed at finding a suitable method for generating NL descriptions from test cases in a for- mal specification language. A first proto- type has been developed and applied to a real-world project in the aerospace sector.