Developing an object-oriented software testing and maintenance environment

  • Authors:
  • David Kung;Jerry Gao;Pei Hsia;Yasufumi Toyoshima;Chris Chen;Young-Si Kim;Young-Kee Song

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Special issue on object-oriented experiences and future trends
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The object-oriented (OO) paradigm is rapidly gaining acceptance in the software industry. However, the powerful features of this new paradigm also introduce a new set of OO software testing and maintenance problems. The pioneering work in identifying these new problems includes [7, 10-12, 14, 16, 18]. The problems can be summarized as: 1) the understanding problem; 2) the complex interdependency problem; 3) the object state behavior testing problem; and 4) the tool support problem. Detailed discussions of these problems will be provided later. Our industrial experience confirms these discoveries.