Allen Parrish
ABSTRACT
The object-oriented paradigm is becoming increasingly important as the standard software development approach in computer science education. With regard to testing, most contemporary industrial focus involves integrating the testing process with the remainder of the development life cycle (e.g., the integration of use case-based requirements definition with testing). While this is a positive step, it is something of a heavyweight approach, in that it requires a substantial understanding of the entire development cycle in order to discuss testing. In this paper, we present a formal conceptual model of the testing process that is lightweight in nature. This process can be applied very early in the computer science curriculum as part of initial courses in the mechanics of programming, prior to a discussion of the overall development life cycle.
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