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UML-Based Integration Testing for Component-Based Software

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COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS 2003)

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Component-based software engineering is increasingly being adopted for software development. Currently, components delivered by component providers only include specifications of the interfaces. This imposes significant dificulties on adequate testing of an integrated component-based system. Without source code, many testing techniques will not be applicable. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been widely adopted in component-based software development processes. Many of its useful tools, such as interaction diagrams, statechart diagrams, and component diagrams, characterize the behavior of components in various aspects, and thus can be used to help test componentbased systems. In this paper, we first analyze different test elements that are critical to test component-based software, then we propose a group of UML-based test adequacy criteria that can be used to test componentbased software.

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  1. Information and Software Engineering Department, George Mason University, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Ye Wu & Jeff Offutt

  2. Computer Science Department, State University of New York at Albany, 12222, Albany, NY, USA

    Mei-Hwa Chen

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Wu, Y., Chen, MH., Offutt, J. (2003). UML-Based Integration Testing for Component-Based Software. In: Erdogmus, H., Weng, T. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36465-X_24

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