Software testing techniques (2nd ed.)
Software testing techniques (2nd ed.)
Incremental testing of object-oriented class structures
ICSE '92 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering
Object-oriented integration testing
Communications of the ACM
Integrated object-oriented testing and development processes
Communications of the ACM
On regression testing of object-oriented programs
Journal of Systems and Software
Object-oriented software engineering with Eiffel
Object-oriented software engineering with Eiffel
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
Testing levels for object-oriented software
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Testing object-oriented systems: models, patterns, and tools
Testing object-oriented systems: models, patterns, and tools
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Iterative Computer Algorithms with Applications in Engineering: Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Efficient Strategies for Integration and Regression Testing of OO Systems
ISSRE '99 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
An Investigation of Graph-Based Class Integration Test Order Strategies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Discovering accurate interclass test dependences
PASTE '07 Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
A state-based approach to integration testing based on UML models
Information and Software Technology
Integration and test sequencing for complex systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans - Special section: Best papers from the 2007 biometrics: Theory, applications, and systems (BTAS 07) conference
Measuring design testability of a UML class diagram
Information and Software Technology
A testing strategy for abstract classes
Software Testing, Verification & Reliability
A study of cyclic dependencies on defect profile of software components
Journal of Systems and Software
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The normalization of semi-formal modeling methods, such as the UML, leads to re-visit the problem of early OO integration test planning. Integration is often conducted under some incremental steps. Integration test planning aims at ordering the components to be integrated and tested in relationships with the already tested part of the system. This paper presents a modeling of the test integration problem from a UML design, then details existing integration strategies and proposes two integration strategies: a deterministic one called Triskell and an original semi-random one, based on genetic algorithms called Genetic. Strategies are compared in detail (algorithmic cost and optimization choices) and a large part of the paper is dedicated to an experimental comparison of each strategy on 6 real-world case studies of various complexities (from a "small" telecommunication software to the Swing Java library). Results show that a good modeling of this optimization problem associated with well-chosen algorithms induce a significant gain in terms of testing effort and duration.