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An approach for component testing and its empirical validation

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Fernando R. C. Silva,

Eduardo S. Almeida,

Silvio R. L. MeiraAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 574 - 581

https://doi.org/10.1145/1529282.1529405

Published: 08 March 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The lack of information limits component consumers to understand candidate components sufficiently in a way they can check if a given component fulfills its goal. Thus, this paper presents an approach to support component testing aiming to reduce the lack of information between component producers and component consumers. Additionally, the approach is covered by a CASE tool integrated in the development environment. An experimental study was performed in order to evaluate its efficiency and difficulties of its use. The experimental study indicates that the approach is viable and the tool support provides effort reduction to component producers and component consumers.

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An approach for component testing and its empirical validation
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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DOI:10.1145/1529282

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Saeed SKhawaja FMahmood Z(2014)A Review of Software Quality MethodologiesSoftware Design and Development10.4018/978-1-4666-4301-7.ch003(34-49)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4301-7.ch003
Shashank SChakka PKumar D(2010)A systematic literature survey of integration testing in component-based software engineering2010 International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT)10.1109/ICCCT.2010.5640467(562-568)Online publication date: Sep-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCT.2010.5640467

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