Software developers use development environments to increase their productivity. The environment often allows a graphical representation to be used in conjunction with editors and compilers. Many environments now automatically generate code from the design. The proposed extension to ControlCenter would add the concept of a test case to the development environment.

Test cases would be coded in the environment and associated with a specific feature in the model. For example, multiple test cases would be associated with each use case. Also test cases could be associated with the individual features on a component.

We have just recently received ControlCenter and are still learning about it. The Java API designed into ControlCenter provide a means of customizing the environment. We don't yet know the extent of the API>

From a user's perspective, it should be easy to define a test case and easy to associate the test case with other model elements.

From a customer's perspective, the tool should be cheap. It should be reliable so that work time is not lost by having to redefine a test case that becomes lost.

From the developer's point of view, the test case entity should be easy to define.