Reasoning about software architecture-based regression testing through a case study

Authors:
Henry Muccini;Marcia Dias;Debra J. Richardson
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Informatica, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Dept. of Computer Science and e-Science Research Institute, University of Durham, Durham, UK;Donald Bren School of Inf. and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
Venue:
COMPSAC-W'05 Proceedings of the 29th annual international conference on Computer software and applications conference
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Two main issues need to be covered when dealing with the dependability of component-based systems: quality assurance of reusable software components and quality assurance of the assembled component-based system. By focussing on the assembly, a software architecture specification of a component-based system allows to explicitly model the structure and required system behavior by specifying how components and connectors are intended to interact. Software architecture-based conformance testing techniques can yield confidence on the implementation conformance to expected structural and behavioral properties as specified in the architectural models. In this paper we explore software architecture-based regression testing methods that enable reuse of earlier saved results to test if a different assembly of components conforms to the evolved software architecture. The approach is presented through a running example.