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A test framework for integration testing of object-oriented programs

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Tom Maibaum,

Zhe (Jessie) LiAuthors Info & Claims

CASCON '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research

Pages 252 - 255

https://doi.org/10.1145/1321211.1321239

Published: 22 October 2007 Publication History

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A lot of research has been done in the field of testing object-oriented programs. However, integration testing forms only a small part of this work and few tools are available to implement the integration testing approaches. This paper presents a new integration testing approach for object-oriented programs and a prototype tool supporting the testing approach. Unlike previous approaches, the proposed technique generates test cases using the concept of Coordination Contract, a specification mechanism which superposes behavior on components without interfering with their implementations. It is related to the concept of active association in UML. One of the advantages in using contracts is that there is a well-developed Coordination Development Environment (CDE) which can transform contracts into Java classes that can be compiled with the components to form a test framework. We describe a tool to automatically generate the contracts from UML sequence diagrams and class diagrams and to accomplish the automation of test execution by using CDE.

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Minhas NMasood SPetersen KNadeem A(2020)A systematic mapping of test case generation techniques using UML interaction diagramsJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.223532:6Online publication date: 4-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/smr.2235
Häser FFelderer MBreu RShepperd MHall TMyrtveit I(2014)Software paradigms, assessment types and non-functional requirements in model-based integration testingProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/2601248.2601257(1-10)Online publication date: 13-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2601248.2601257
Liu HLi ZZhu JTan HHuang H(2009)A Unified Test Framework for Continuous Integration Testing of SOA SolutionsProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services10.1109/ICWS.2009.28(880-887)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICWS.2009.28

A test framework for integration testing of object-oriented programs
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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CASCON '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research

October 2007

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Kelly Lyons
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National Research Council Canada
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Margaret-Anne Storey
University of Victoria
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Darlene Stewart
National Research Council Canada
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National Research Council Canada
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Margaret-Anne Storey
University of Victoria

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Minhas NMasood SPetersen KNadeem A(2020)A systematic mapping of test case generation techniques using UML interaction diagramsJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.223532:6Online publication date: 4-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/smr.2235
Häser FFelderer MBreu RShepperd MHall TMyrtveit I(2014)Software paradigms, assessment types and non-functional requirements in model-based integration testingProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/2601248.2601257(1-10)Online publication date: 13-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2601248.2601257
Liu HLi ZZhu JTan HHuang H(2009)A Unified Test Framework for Continuous Integration Testing of SOA SolutionsProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services10.1109/ICWS.2009.28(880-887)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICWS.2009.28

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