Antimodeling

The concept of Anti-Model-Based Testing was developed by Italian computer scientists Antonia Bertolino, Andrea Polini, Paola Inverardi, and Henry Muccini in the paper "Towards Anti-Model-Based Testing". The concept is an extension to Model-Based Test Automation aiming to make it more cost effective to implement.

The paper suggests that software could build a model through black-box analysis of a system. That is to say, there would be a program to create the model of the system without the programmer having to necessarily interact in order for the model to be built. The only real input the programmer would need to provide would be updates to the model itself. This makes the role of testing suitable for educated programmers as they will actually be engineers of the models instead of analysts of the results of a scripted test.

To date no products are available commercially or otherwise which implement this concept.
 
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