A Metadata Configuration Model for Component-Based Software Integration Testing

Component-based software develop has become the main develop method. Meanwhile how to assure its quality is an important research content, including component-based software integration testing. This paper introduces a metadata configuration model describing interior information of component to increase testability. The metadata configuration model(MCM) includes three parts: basic attributes, additive attributes and integrated attributes. And a general framework of the model is further given, which is consisted of several classes. Each class includes several attributes, and their meanings are described. Finally the case study based on previous model is done, and the corresponding results are given. All these show effectively that the models we presented are valid and helpful for component-based software integration testing.