Testing Object-Oriented Software (Practitioners) (Paperback)

~ David C. Kung (Author), Pei Hsia (Author), Jerry Gao (Author) "The OO paradigm enjoys increasing acceptance in the software industry, due to its visible benefits in analysis, design, and coding..." (more)
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Product Description

Object-oriented programming increases software reusability, extensibility, interoperability, and reliability. Software testing is necessary to realize these benefits by uncovering as many programming errors as possible at a minimum cost. A major challenge to the software engineering community remains how to reduce the cost while improving the quality of software testing. The requirements for testing object-oriented programs differ from those for testing conventional programs.

Testing Object-Oriented Software illustrates these differences and discusses object-oriented software testing problems, focusing on the difficulties and challenges testers face. The text contains of nineteen reprinted papers providing a general framework for class- and system-level testing and examines object-oriented design criteria and high testability metrics. It offers object-oriented testing techniques, ideas and methods for unit testing, and object-oriented program integration-testing strategy.

Readers are shown how to drastically reduce regression test costs, presented with steps for object-oriented testing, and introduced to object-oriented test tools and systems. The book's intended audience includes object-oriented program testers, program developers, software project managers, and researchers working with object-oriented testing.

From the Back Cover

Object-oriented programming increases software reusability, extensibility, interoperability, and reliability. Software testing is necessary to realize these benefits. Software testing aims to uncover as many programming errors as possible at a minimum cost. A major challenge to the software engineering community remains how to reduce the cost and improve the quality of software testing.

The requirements for testing object-oriented programs differ from those for testing conventional programs. Testing Object-Oriented Software illustrates these differences and discusses object-oriented software testing problems, focusing on the difficulties and challenges testers face. The book provides a general framework for class- and system-level testing and examines object-oriented design criteria and high testability metrics. It offers object-oriented testing techniques, ideas and methods for unit testing, and object-oriented program integration-testing strategy.

Readers are shown how they can drastically reduce regression test costs, presented with steps for object-oriented testing, and introduced to object-oriented test tools and systems. In addition to software testing problems, the text covers various test methods developers can use during the design phase to generate programs with good testability. The book's intended audience includes object-oriented program testers, program developers, software project managers, and researchers working with object-oriented testing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr; 1st edition (November 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0818685204
• ISBN-13: 978-0818685200
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,447,811 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of OO testing, June 18, 1999

By A Customer

As far as I know, there are less than 100 articles on OO testing -- this book covers the relatively new field in seven well-organized chapters, from its problems to integration testing and test methodologies. Perhaps something more could be done with specific approaches to conducting OO testing for C++ or Java programs, but I found the book helpful in its approach to identify specific OO testing problems in the first chapter and addressing these and related issues about the different phases of software testing in the subsequent chapters.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of OO testing, June 18, 1999

By A Customer

As far as I know, there are less than 100 articles on OO testing -- this book covers the relatively new field in seven well-organized chapters, from its problems to integration testing and test methodologies. Perhaps something more could be done with specific approaches to conducting OO testing for C++ or Java programs, but I found the book helpful in its approach to identify specific OO testing problems in the first chapter and addressing these and related issues about the different phases of software testing in the subsequent chapters.

1.0 out of 5 stars Nice collection, deceptive packaging, June 10, 2000

By A Customer

This book is a collection of reprinted articles, which are good (re)reading. But the blurb suggests that there is new and original content, which there isn't. If it saves you a trip to the library, you'll probably have gotten your money's worth.