Component Interface Testing in Virtual Experiment for Visualization of Material Property Data

Component-based development is widely used in large-scale software systems, which is focused on modularization and reusability. Each component has several related interfaces, which clearly describe the function, behavior and other relevant information. In addition, component interface also defines communications with other modules. Thus the interface defines all information of the component. The failure of the interface could cause serious problems for the whole system. Therefore, the component interface testing is an essential part of the component development. In this paper, a XML-based component interface testing method is proposed in a virtual experiment platform. The virtual experiment is applied to visualize material property data. The results show its efficiency and flexibility.