Behavior driven testing in ALMA telescope calibration software

Juan Pablo Gil; Mario Garces; Dominique Broguiere; Tzu-Chiang Shen

doi:10.1117/12.2232197

26 July 2016 Behavior driven testing in ALMA telescope calibration software

Juan Pablo Gil, Mario Garces, Dominique Broguiere, Tzu-Chiang Shen

Proceedings Volume 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV; 99130C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232197
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

ALMA software development cycle includes well defined testing stages that involves developers, testers and scientists. We adapted Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to testing activities applied to Telescope Calibration (TELCAL) software. BDD is an agile technique that encourages communication between roles by defining test cases using natural language to specify features and scenarios, what allows participants to share a common language and provides a high level set of automated tests. This work describes how we implemented and maintain BDD testing for TELCAL, the infrastructure needed to support it and proposals to expand this technique to other subsystems.

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Juan Pablo Gil, Mario Garces, Dominique Broguiere, and Tzu-Chiang Shen "Behavior driven testing in ALMA telescope calibration software", Proc. SPIE 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV, 99130C (26 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232197

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