Improving model-based component testability can further model-based approaches to software component testing (SCT) for desirable testing effectiveness. Component contracts are useful testing-support artefacts to improve component testability. This paper presents a new contract-based SCT technique, Test by Contract (TbC), which extends the Design by Contract concept to the SCT domain, and leverages UML-based testing with the contract mechanism to design model-based test contracts for UML-based SCT. We introduce a new concept of Contract for Testability as the principal goal of the TbC technique, and develop a set of important contract-oriented concepts (test contract, effectual contract scope, and internal/external test contract) and useful test criteria to improve model-based testability. We develop a useful stepwise TbC working process, and use a case study to demonstrate how to put the TbC technique into practice to undertake contract-based SCT with UML models.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Software Component Testability and Improvement Approaches 2.1. Software Component Testability 2.2. Testability Improvement Approaches 3. Overview of Test by Contract 4. Contract for Testability 4.1. Test Contract 4.2. Realising and Representing Test Contracts 4.3. Effectual Contract Scope – Internal/External Test Contract 4.4. Contract-Based Test Criteria 4.5. Realising Testability Improvement 5. Test Contract Design for Test Model Construction 5.1. Test Contract Design Strategy 5.2. Contract-Based Test Model Construction – A Case Study 6. Contract-Based Component Test Design 6.1. Test Design with Test States 6.2. Test Design with Test Events 7. Contract-Based Component Test Generation 8. Related Work and Discussion 9. Conclusions and Future Work 10. References
저자
Weiqun Zheng [ Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia ]
Gary Bundell [ Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia ]
보안공학연구지원센터(IJSEIA) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJSEIA)]
설립연도
2006
분야
공학>컴퓨터학
소개
1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구
2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표
3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최
4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환
5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정
6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진
7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력
8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간
9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
간기
월간
pISSN
1738-9984
수록기간
2008~2016
등재여부
SCOPUS
십진분류
KDC 505DDC 605
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol.3 No.1