A Tool to Automatically Map Implementation-based Testing Techniques to Classes

hibiting the characteristics of abstraction, encapsulation, genericity, inheritance, polymorphism, concurrency and exception handling. To address the difficulty of testing the features of a class, a plethora of implementation-based testing techniques (IBTTs) have been developed. However, no one IBTT has emerged as the preferred technique to test the implementation of a class. In this paper we present a technique that automatically identify those IBTTs that are most suitable for testing a class based on the characteristics of that class. Our approach uses a taxonomy of OO classes that is used to succinctly the characteristics of a class under test (CUT). We have implemented a tool that automates the process of mapping IBTTs to a class. In addition to identifying the IBTTs that would be best suited for testing a class, our tool provides feedback to the tester facilitating the identification of the characteristics of the class that are not suitably tested by any of the IBTTs in the list. ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: IJSEKE
• Authors: Peter J. Clarke, Junhua Ding, Djuradj Babich, Brian A. Malloy
• Keywords: Exception Handling, IJSEKE 2006, Implementation-based Testing Techniques, Preferred Technique