UMLBased Integration Testing for ComponentBased

Authors: Ye Wu MeiHwa Chen Jeff Offutt

Publish Date: 2003/2/10

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 251-260

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Abstract

Componentbased software engineering is increasingly being adopted for software development Currently components delivered by component providers only include specifications of the interfaces This imposes significant dificulties on adequate testing of an integrated componentbased system Without source code many testing techniques will not be applicable The Unified Modeling Language UML has been widely adopted in componentbased software development processes Many of its useful tools such as interaction diagrams statechart diagrams and component diagrams characterize the behavior of components in various aspects and thus can be used to help test componentbased systems In this paper we first analyze different test elements that are critical to test componentbased software then we propose a group of UMLbased test adequacy criteria that can be used to test componentbased software

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