Integrated object-oriented testing and development processes

McGregor, John D.; Korson, Timothy

doi:10.1145/182987.184075

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“…The statechart may therefore be flattened to a simple state machine, with transition a leading directly from state S1 to S2.1 and an exit transition b from both substates S1. 1 In their Syntropy method [13], Cook and Daniels permit further extensions to statecharts. Their full set of refinements includes (p207-8): adding new transitions, adding new states, partitioning a state into substates, splitting transitions either at source or destination substates, retargeting transitions onto destination substates and composition with concurrent machines.…”

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“…Practical object-oriented unit testing is influenced considerably by the non-intrusive testing philosophy of McGregor et al [1,2]. In this approach, every object under test (OUT) has a corresponding test-harness object (THO), which encapsulates all the testsets separately.…”

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“…The purpose of such retesting is to ensure that the child class still delivers all the functionality of the parent. The child THO will supply additional test-sets to exercise methods introduced in the child OUT [1,2].…”

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A theory of regression testing for behaviourally compatible object types

Simons

2006

Software Testing Verif & Rel

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Abstract. This paper presents a behavioural theory of object compatibility, based on the refinement of object states. The theory predicts that only certain models of state refinement yield compatible types, dictating the legitimate design styles to be adopted in object statecharts. The theory also predicts that standard practices in regression testing are inadequate. Functionally complete test-sets that are applied as regression tests to subtype objects are usually expected to cover the state-space of the original type, even if they do not cover transitions and states introduced in the subtype. However, such regression testing is proven to cover strictly less than this in the new context and so provides much weaker guarantees than was previously expected. Instead, a retesting model based on automatic test regeneration is required to guarantee equivalent levels of correctness.

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A theory of regression testing for behaviourally compatible object types

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2006

Software Testing Verif & Rel

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“…When comparing the testing of related MOs with testing clusters of objects in object oriented programs, this conclusion is also acknowledged by work on object oriented program testing approaches. In [20], it is stated that special attention has to be paid to classes of which instances can be bound to more than one cluster.…”

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Testing of Relationships in an OSI Management Information Base

Baer

Clemm²

1995

Integrated Network Management IV

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In open distributed environments such as in OSI network management, a procedure of conformance testing is essential for increasing the level of confidence that component implementations from different sources actually meet their specifications as a prerequisite for their ability to interact as intended. This applies not only to OSI communication protocols but also to open management information. In particular, this includes relationships between managed objects, an aspect which has been largely ignored so far but which deserves particular attention and which we therefore focus on in this paper. Using the OSI General Relationship Model as a basis, we discuss how respective conformance requirements can be identified which serve as a starting point for the development of test cases.

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“…In the paper, the performance of a strategy is thus related to the number of generated stubs and the number of integration steps. Among the many existing proposals [4,6,9,10,11,13] that deal with this problem, we concentrate on those of David C. Kung and al. [10] and Kuo Chung Tai & Fonda J. Daniels [4] since they both detail effective and feasible algorithms.…”

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Selecting an Efficient OO Integration Testing Strategy: An Experimental Comparison of Actual Strategies

Hanh

Akif

Traon

et al. 2001

ECOOP 2001 — Object-Oriented Programming

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Abstract:The normalization of semi-formal modeling methods, such as the UML, leads to re-visit the problem of early OO integration test planning. Integration is often conducted under some incremental steps. Integration test planning aims at ordering the components to be integrated and tested in relationships with the already tested part of the system. This paper presents a modeling of the test integration problem from a UML design, then details existing integration strategies and proposes two integration strategies: a deterministic one called Triskell and an original semi-random one, based on genetic algorithms called Genetic. Strategies are compared in detail (algorithmic cost and optimization choices) and a large part of the paper is dedicated to an experimental comparison of each strategy on 6 real-world case studies of various complexities (from a "small" telecommunication software to the Swing Java library). Results show that a good modeling of this optimization problem associated with well-chosen algorithms induce a significant gain in terms of testing effort and duration.

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Integrated object-oriented testing and development processes

Cited by 59 publications

References 9 publications

A theory of regression testing for behaviourally compatible object types

A theory of regression testing for behaviourally compatible object types

Testing of Relationships in an OSI Management Information Base

Selecting an Efficient OO Integration Testing Strategy: An Experimental Comparison of Actual Strategies

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