29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05) Volume 1
Incremental Class Testing from a Class Test Order
Edinburgh, Scotland
July 26-July 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2413-3
Many approaches exist to decide the order in which classes should be integrated during (integration) testing. Most of them, based on an analysis of class dependencies (for instance described in a UML class diagram) aim at producing a partial order indicating which classes should be tested in sequence and which ones can be tested in parallel. We argue in this article that, thanks to the specifics of such a class test order, it is possible to define an incremental strategy for testing classes that promotes reuse during testing, not only along class inheritance hierarchies.