Probe mechanism for object-oriented software testing

Authors:
Anita Goel;S. C. Gupta;S. K. Wasan
Affiliations:
University of Delhi, Dyal Singh College, New Delhi, India;National Informatics Center, New Delhi, India;Jamia Millia Islamia, Department of Mathematics, New Delhi, India
Venue:
FASE'03 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Fundamental approaches to software engineering
Year:
2003

Citing 12
Cited 2

Experiences with cluster and class testing

Communications of the ACM
Integrated object-oriented testing and development processes

Communications of the ACM
Design for testability in object-oriented systems

Communications of the ACM
An overview of regression testing

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
TACCLE: a methodology for object-oriented software testing at the class and cluster levels

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An empirical study of regression test selection techniques

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The Dynamic Probe Class Library: An Infrastucture for Developing Instrumentation for Performance Tools

IPDPS '01 Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
TATOO: Testing and Analysis Tool for Object- Oriented Software

TACAS 2001 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Analysis Techniques for Testing Polymorphic Relationships

TOOLS '99 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
HP caliper: an architecture for performance analysis tools

WIESS'00 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software - Volume 1
BIT: a tool for instrumenting java bytecodes

USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Automatic program transformation with JOIE

ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference

A new approach for software testability analysis

Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Code based analysis for object-oriented systems

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper presents a probe-based testing technique that facilitates observing internal details of execution at different levels of abstraction-unit, integration and system levels, during testing of object-oriented software. Our technique adapts probe, an observability measure, to suit the testing needs of object-oriented software. It uses source-code instrumentation, which requires probes to be pre-determined and pre-built in the software during the development phase. Test coverage reports are generated from the information gathered by the executed probes. It includes coverage of probes at probe, method, class, inheritance, regression and dynamic binding levels. During regression testing, our technique helps in the selection of test cases that must be re-executed. Furthermore, the log generated by active probes can be used for post-analysis.