Object-Oriented Software Testing: A Hierarchical Approach

By Shel Siegel

An important new object-oriented testing approach that gives you greater reusability, improved software quality, and reduced development costs Integration testing, black box testing, regression testing, requirements testing . . . all of these can be highly effective approaches when applied to conventional top-down or structured software development. But object-oriented developers are discovering that the procedural approach to testing is not sufficient when applied to the kind of software they develop. As author Shel Siegel clearly demonstrates in this groundbreaking book, object-oriented software development requires a radically different testing approach, one that incorporates a new set of strategies, testing procedures customized for objects and components, and an integrated, specialized object-oriented testing infrastructure. Now, in Object Oriented Software Testing, he specifies the OO testing system, its objects, environment, tools, and procedures, and shows you how to use them to optimize your object-oriented development efforts. The hierarchical approach described in this book is the first testing scheme designed specifically to address the unique goals and concerns inherent to object-oriented development projects. In case after case it yields nothing less than remarkable results-greater reusability, higher software quality, and consistently lower development costs than those incurred during structured applications development. The first book to explore one of the most important developments in software engineering in recent years, Object Oriented Software Testing is an important addition to your software development library.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471137499
• ISBN13: 9780471137498
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 1.2" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A Good Reference To One's Approach of Testing

I don't know what the other reviewers was smoking. THEY must work for companies that puts out crap software. ... However this book contains good reference material on how to set up a test approach. ... I know a good software testing company and a Fortune 500 company in San Francisco that utilize some of the content from this book as part of their testing foundation.A hierarchical approach (you can read it on pg 101) does allow one to prepare a structural testing gameplan. If you do not do all of your proper unit testing in the beginning, as pointed out in the book. The cost will be overwhelming at the end of the cycle. ... With a correct structure, one has a plan. And we know that "failure to plan is to plan for failure." If the famous SQA Boris Beizer wrote the foreword to this book, it is a technical endorsement to Siegal's knowledge on this topic. As a Software Quality Assurance Professional, I believe this book is not the absolute answer to testing. But it is a good start for SQA newbies and an above adequate reference text for SQA Professionals of all levels.