Generating Testing Codes for Behavior-Driven Development from Problem Diagrams: A Tool-Based Approach

Eliciting requirements in their real-world contexts and creating and transforming visual models which can help lead to early designs of software is a challenging and time-consuming step in software engineering processes. In order to support the creation of these models and generate artifacts useful for software designs, we have developed the Problem-to-Design tool ( PROD) based on Jackson's Problem Frames approach. The tool has been inspired by the work in the behavior-driven development community, which recommends that testing codes be generated as early as in the requirements engineering phase. The tool provides an open portal where multiple stakeholders can draw their own problem diagrams online, which can be used to generate use case narratives and testing codes for further behavior-driven development.