UMLTP23 — UTP should incorporate concepts to speciy decision tables for allowing decision table testing

Decision table testing is a major and frequently used black-box test design technique. In system and acceptance testing as well as testing of business processes, decision table testing is used to identify the test conditions within business rules by representing these rules in a tabluar format.

The Decision Modeling Notation (DMN) provides a MOF-based metamodel for modeling decision tables. Within the DMN, decition tables are an isolated part, well suited for being extracted as profile as part of UTP.

Incorporating a decision table profile into UTP, inspired by the DMN MOF-based metamodel, would improve UTP in the area of business rule testing and make UTP more complete regarding specification-oriented test design techniques.