Increase Software Trustability with Self-Testable Classes in Java

  • Authors:

  • Daniel Deveaux;Patrice Frison;Jean-Marc Jézéquel

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ASWEC '01 Proceedings of the 13th Australian Conference on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: The rise of component-based software development poses the problem of components trustability. To know whether a given component can be used within a certain context, there must be a way of telling what the component is supposed to do (its contract) without entering into the details of the how. Based on this idea, we have proposed a general Design-for-Trustability methodology ("DfT"), starting from simple self-testing of individual classes to optimized integration testing, This paper describes the "DfT" methodology, the self-testable class model that supports it and the associated tools for java development.