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An Approach To Analyzing and Testing Component-Based Systems
International Congerence on Software Engineering Workshop on Testing distributed Component-Based Systems
May 1999
Mary Jean Harrold, Donglin Liang, and Saurabh Sinha
Abstract
Software testing and maintenance account for as much as
two-thirds of the cost of software production.
Program analysis techniques offer the potential
to automate testing and maintenance tasks, and thereby
reduce the cost of these tasks.
An emerging paradigm of software development that promises
to enhance software productivity and quality composes
software from independently-developed components.
The nature of component-based software,
however, introduces new problems for applying program
analysis techniques to testing and maintenance of
such software:
the providers of software components develop and test
the components independently of the applications that
use the components; the users of software components
analyze and test their applications without access to
source code of the components used in those applications.
This paper describes issues and challenges in applying
analysis and testing techniques to component-based
software and presents an approach to analyzing
and testing component-based systems.
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