Advanced concepts

There are several ways for improving maintenance of test suites. Because of the large amount of test data required for testing a component, techniques are required, that allow reducing the amount of data, especially avoiding unnecessary duplicates.

Following advanced features are considered in the next topics:

• Test suite patterns
• Test suite templates
• Test suite inheritance
• Test suite versioning
• Interface to test management

Here, advanced concepts are not discussed in detail, but some useful solutions are shortly illustrated.