Testing reusable software components from object specification

  • Authors:
  • Muthu Ramachandran

  • Affiliations:
  • Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Most Consumer Electronics products today contain complex embedded software. We believe a component-oriented approach is an ideal way to handle the diversity of software complexity. Our earlier work on reusable components addressing the development of the Koala component model has been shown (as an outcome of the ESPRIT project ARES) to address reuse with concept of late binding [1]. This work has been carried out as a part of the research project on 'Testing Reusable Software Components'. Our approach to testing components is based on the principles of testing from object models by decomposing a COM-like component into OO models. Therefore we are able to generate a volume of key test cases to study boundary value testing and analysis on component interfaces, which is the key to achieve testability and reusability of software components.