Title :
Context-driven testing of object-oriented systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
Many different testing techniques have been proposed by researchers, but essentially only two main testing philosophies exist, black box and white box. There exist a number of different testing methods for structural testing of procedural languages. However, the features of object-oriented languages are not addressed by such techniques. The article explores a new structural testing technique for object-oriented systems by developing a testing methodology based on object manipulations and driven by the context of the program under test.
Keywords :
object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; program testing; software quality; software reliability; systems analysis; black box testing; context-driven testing; object manipulations; object-oriented language; object-oriented systems; procedural language; structural testing; testing methodology; white box testing; Computer science; Costs; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Programming profession; Proportional control; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software testing; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 2003. ICSM 2003. Proceedings. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1905-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.2003.1235431