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Integrating Behavior Driven Development and Programming by Contract

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013 (ICCSA 2013)

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This paper developed a Contracted Behavior Driven Development (CBDD) method that extends and combines the ideas behind Test/Behavior Driven Development (TDD/BDD) and Programming by Contract (PBC) to improve the overall stability and quality of a system. A tool is developed to derive unit tests automatically by analyzing human written specifications for preconditions and post-conditions when coupled with data definitions. These results will be used to generate code to be run by a unit testing framework before deployment, either as part of a continuous integration environment or by individual developers. The tool will also generate wireframe classes implementing pre and post-conditions within the code and using runtime contract analysis to generate information when an exception occurs, thereby helping to automate verification of bug fixes.

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  1. Computer Science & Information Systems Department, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, U.S.A.

    Larry Schoeneman & Jiang B. Liu

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  1. L-I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.t. Facoltà Ingegneria, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Covenant University, Canaanland OTA, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  3. Partimento di Scienze e Tecnologie per LAgricoltura, le Foreste, la Natura e lEnergia, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, snc, 01100, Viterbo, Italy

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  4. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria Civile e dell’Architecttura, Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo M. Torre

  5. International University VNU-HCM, Quarter 6, Linh Trung, Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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  6. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  7. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, 813-8503, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  8. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

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Schoeneman, L., Liu, J.B. (2013). Integrating Behavior Driven Development and Programming by Contract. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013. ICCSA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39640-3_43

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