Testing Object-Oriented Software [Paperback]

Object-oriented programming increases software reusability, extensibility, interoperability, and reliability. Software testing is necessary to realize these benefits by uncovering as many programming errors as possible at a minimum cost. A major challenge to the software engineering community remains how to reduce the cost while improving the quality of software testing. The requirements for testing object-oriented programs differ from those for testing conventional programs.

Testing Object-Oriented Software illustrates these differences and discusses object-oriented software testing problems, focusing on the difficulties and challenges testers face. The text contains of nineteen reprinted papers providing a general framework for class- and system-level testing and examines object-oriented design criteria and high testability metrics. It offers object-oriented testing techniques, ideas and methods for unit testing, and object-oriented program integration-testing strategy.

Readers are shown how to drastically reduce regression test costs, presented with steps for object-oriented testing, and introduced to object-oriented test tools and systems. The book's intended audience includes object-oriented program testers, program developers, software project managers, and researchers working with object-oriented testing.Preface.

Chapter 1. OO Testing Problems.

Adequate Testing and Object-Oriented Programming (Dewayne E. Perry and Gail E. Kaiser).

Object-Oriented Programming--The Problems of Validation (M.D. Smith and D.J. Robson).

Maintenance Support for Object-Oriented Programs (Norman Wilde and Ross Huitt).

Chapter 2. Specification and Verification.

Design for Testability in Object-Oriented Systems (Robert V. Binder).

Method Sequence Specification and l³-