• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.592-600
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• 2005

Systematically extracting the test patterns of hot spots in an object-oriented software framework is a prerequisite for thoroughly testing the framework's functionality in a variety of contexts in which the framework is extended for reuse. This paper proposes a method for analyzing the design patterns and extracting the test patterns from the interaction test patterns of hot spots in an object-oriented framework. Based on the design pattern of the framework's hot spot, our method captures the object behavior allowed in that hot spot by means of statecharts, which are then used to generate the interaction test patterns and test cases. The generated test patterns and test cases can be applied repeatedly to applications which are built from extending the framework.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.1_2
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• pp.65-79
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• 2002

Object-oriented frameworks need to be systematically tested because they are reused in developing many applications software. They also need additional testing whenever they are extended for reuse. Frameworks, however, have properties that make it difficult to control and observe the testing of the parts that were modified and extended. In this paper, we describe the method of embedding test components as BIT(Built-In Test) into the framework's hot spots in order to efficiently detect the faults through testing that occurred while implementing application programs by modifying and extending the framework. The test components embedded into a framework make it easy to control and observe testing the framework, and thereby improve the testability of frameworks. Test components designed by the method proposed in this paper can be dynamically attached and detached to/from hot spots of a framework without changes or intervention to the framework code.