Testing Object Oriented Software

By Pei Hsia, Jerry Gao, David C. Kung, et al.

Object-oriented programming increases software reusability, extensibility, interoperability, and reliability. Software testing is necessary to realize these benefits by uncovering as many programming errors as possible at a minimum cost. A major challenge to the software engineering community remains how to reduce the cost while improving the quality of software testing. The requirements for testing object-oriented programs differ from those for testing conventional programs.

Testing Object-Oriented Software illustrates these differences and discusses object-oriented software testing problems, focusing on the difficulties and challenges testers face. The text contains of nineteen reprinted papers providing a general framework for class- and system-level testing and examines object-oriented design criteria and high testability metrics. It offers object-oriented testing techniques, ideas and methods for unit testing, and object-oriented program integration-testing strategy.

Readers are shown how to drastically reduce regression test costs, presented with steps for object-oriented testing, and introduced to object-oriented test tools and systems. The book's intended audience includes object-oriented program testers, program developers, software project managers, and researchers working with object-oriented testing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0818685204
• ISBN13: 9780818685200
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society PR
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of OO testing

As far as I know, there are less than 100 articles on OO testing -- this book covers the relatively new field in seven well-organized chapters, from its problems to integration testing and test methodologies. Perhaps something more could be done with specific approaches to conducting OO testing for C++ or Java programs, but I found the book helpful in its approach to identify specific OO testing problems in the first chapter and addressing these and related issues about the different phases of software testing in the subsequent chapters.