Deriving Tests From Software Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Zhenyi Jin;Jeff Offutt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISSRE '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Software architecture are intended to describe essential high level tructural and behavioral characteristic of the system.Architecture Description Language (ADLs) decribe these characteristic in way that can be analyzed and manipulated algorithmically.This provide a unique opportunity for deriving test at the system level.This paper define formal testing criteria based on architecture relations, which are paths that architectural componentuse to communicate.The criteria have been applied to a specific ADL.Result from a comparative empirical study on industrial oftware are presented.