Testing and quality assurance for component-based software

463 Pages·2003·2.811 MB·English

by  Jerry Zeyu Gao, H.-S. Jacob Tsao, Ye Wu

Testing and Quality Assurance for
Component-Based Software
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Testing and Quality Assurance for
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Jerry Zeyu Gao
H.-S. Jacob Tsao
Ye Wu
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Whatisthisbookabout? xvii
Whyhasreuseofthird-partysoftwarecomponentsbecome
popularrecently? xviii
Whyistestingsoftwarecomponentsandcomponent-based
softwareimportant? xviii
Bookorganization xix
Isthisbookforyou? xx
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
I Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Introductiontosoftwarecomponents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Theevolutionofsoftwarecomponents 3
1.2 Whyissoftwarecomponentreuseimportant? 5
1.3 Whatisasoftwarecomponent? 6
1.4 PropertiesofsoftwarecomponentsinCBSE 8
1.5 Basicelementsofsoftwarecomponents 11
1.6 SoftwaremodulesversussoftwarecomponentsinCBSE 13
1.7 Anengineeringprocessforsoftwarecomponents 17
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viii Contents
1.8 Questions,concerns,andneedsincomponentvalidation
andqualitycontrol 19
1.9 Summary 21
References 22
2 Softwarecomponenttesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.1 Componenttestingbackground 26
2.2 ComponenttestinginCBSE 28
2.2.1 Vendor-orientedcomponenttesting 29
2.2.2 User-orientedcomponenttesting 30
2.3 IssuesandchallengesofcomponenttestinginCBSE 34
2.3.1 Issuesandchallengesinuser-orientedcomponentvalidation 35
2.3.2 Issuesandchallengesinvendor-orientedcomponenttesting 38
2.4 Componenttestingmythsandotherneeds 41
2.5 Summary 44
References 44
3 Introductiontocomponent-basedsoftware. . . . . . . . . . 47
3.1 Introduction 47
3.2 Component-basedsoftwareversustraditionalprograms 49
3.2.1 Propertiesofcomponent-basedsoftware 49
3.2.2 Component-basedsoftwareversustraditionalprograms 53
3.3 Component-basedsoftwareinfrastructure:componentmodel 55
3.4 Engineeringprocessforcomponent-basedsoftware 58
3.4.1 Processmodelsfortraditionalsoftware 58
3.4.2 Aprocessmodelforcomponent-basedsoftware 60
References 65
4 Testingcomponent-basedsoftware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.1 Introduction 68
4.2 Issuesandchallengesoftestingandmaintaining
component-basedsoftware 69
4.2.1 Why is adequate testing for component-based software
necessary? 69