Software testing and analysis of object-oriented software

  • Authors:
  • Jeff Offutt

  • Affiliations:
  • George Mason University, Fairfax VA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Our work has studied new language mechanisms for accessing message invocations in message passing based concurrent programming languages. Invocation handling mechanisms in many concurrent languages have significant limitations that make it difficult or costly to solve common programming situations encountered in program visualization, debugging, and scheduling scenarios. We have defined and implemented new such mechanisms within the SR concurrent language and have gained some experience with them.This work has led us to want a cleaner, higher-level way of defining mechanisms for message invocation. We are, therefore, now taking an object-oriented approach. As a step toward that goal, we are currently applying our ideas to Java.Below, we briefly summarize these two areas.