Testing Scenario Implementation with Behavior Contracts

This paper presents behavior contracts as a new assertion mechanism and a tool that uses such contracts to support the testing of object-oriented (OO) systems. A behavior contract models how the scenarios for performing a designated task are expected to be implemented. Based on this contract, our to...

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Published in30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06) Vol. 1; pp. 395 - 402
Main Authors Donglin Liang, Kai Xu
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2006
Subjects
Application software
Computer bugs
Computerized monitoring
Contracts
Formal specifications
Object oriented modeling
Programming
Sampling methods
Software testing
System testing
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Summary:This paper presents behavior contracts as a new assertion mechanism and a tool that uses such contracts to support the testing of object-oriented (OO) systems. A behavior contract models how the scenarios for performing a designated task are expected to be implemented. Based on this contract, our tool can automatically monitor the program execution for checking important properties related to these scenarios. This capability can help testers to determine whether the scenarios have been implemented correctly. Our tool can also collect test coverage information w.r.t. the scenarios modeled by a behavior contract. Such information can be used to direct the testing efforts towards the less-covered scenarios, and to determine whether the implementation of these scenarios has been adequately tested. Therefore, using this tool should improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of testing OO systems
ISBN:0769526551
9780769526553
ISSN:0730-3157
DOI:10.1109/COMPSAC.2006.81