Automatic Test case Generation from UML Activity Diagrams

Test Case Generation is an important phase in software development. Nowadays much of the research is done on UML diagrams for generating test cases. Activity diagrams are different from flow diagrams in the fact that activity diagrams express parallel behavior which flow diagrams cannot express. This paper concentrates on UML 2.0 Activity Diagram for generating test cases. Fork and join pair in activity diagram are used to represent concurrent activities. A novel method is proposed to generate test case for concurrent and non concurrent activities. Proposed approach details about the importance of concurrent nodes and their execution order in path generation.