Software testing of the behavioral aspects of objects

Author

Wong, S.K. ; Dillon, T.S. ; Hanish, A. ; Chang, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., La Trobe Univ., Bundoora, Vic., Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

55

Abstract

Considerable work has previously been done on testing the static aspects of object-oriented systems. This includes both unit testing of individual objects as well as integration testing, which tests whether the static relationships between objects (such as inheritance and aggregation) have been properly implemented. Little work has been done on testing the dynamic aspects beyond testing individual methods. Important issues such as message sequencing, the execution order of methods and inter-object dynamics have not been adequately addressed in the literature. In this paper, we propose a method of software testing the dynamics of these object-oriented systems

Keywords

object-oriented programming; program testing; aggregation; dynamic aspects; inheritance; integration testing; inter-object dynamics; message sequencing; methods execution order; object behavioral aspects; object-oriented systems; software testing; unit testing; Computer science; Performance evaluation; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, 1999. WORDS 1999 Fall. Proceedings. Fifth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0616-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WORDSF.1999.842333

Filename

842333