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.

Deferred due to lack of time

The RTF agreed that there should be a tighter integration between decision tables and utp2 to perform decision table testing. Due to lack of time, the RTF agreed to defer the resolution of this issue to a subsequence RTF

The specification documents (both ptc/23-04-02 and ptc/23-04-03) that were submitted with the UTP 2.2 RTF report (doc#: ptc/23-04-01) contained some issue with editiorial content. Some words that were set in (bold) blue do not represent links, but the typographical convention for these words are not given in the specification. Furthermore, the newly added clauses made not use of those links at all.

Complementary editorial/typographical changes from AB comments

The following resolution and the editing instructions represent complementary editorial corrections of the already submitted specification documents (both ptc/23-04-02 and ptc/23-04-03) because of the Ab review comments recieved after submission of the UTP 2.2 in May 2023 (doc# ptc/23-04-01).
The editing instructions describe only the delta of changes, thus, all the changes reported by the editing instructions of the formert report (doc# ptc/23-04-01) are present in the new specifications documents. In addition, the new submitted specification documents (ptc/24-07-02 and ptc/23-07-03) contain editing instructions as a result of the AB review of the former submission (ptc/23-04-01).

The machine-readable files submitted with UTP 2.2 RTF report (doc#: ptc/23-04-01) contained some syntactical issues that prevented the import of the machine readable files into compliant tools.

Minor editorial changes to the XMI

The machine-readable file for the UTP2 metamodel (utp2.xm, ptc/23-04-06) contained the following issues that prevent import/validity:

Issue in Line 1091
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Corrected to:
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Issue in line 1231:
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Corrected to:
<ownedLiteral xmi:type="uml:EnumerationLiteral" xmi:id="_MPcSIFeHEeihnpddrZbjug" name="implicitExpect"/>

Issue in Line 1566:
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Corrected to:
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