Integration testing of object-oriented software

• Main Author: Skelton, Gordon William
• Other Authors: Steenkamp, A. L.
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Software testing; Integration testing; Object-oriented; Software Development Life Cycle; Process model; Unified Modeling Language (UML); Software quality; Software quality assurance; Software modeling; 005.117; Object-oriented programming (Computer science); Object-oriented methods (Computer science); UML (Computer science); System analysis; Computer software > Development; Computer software > Testing
• Online Access: Skelton, Gordon William (2000) Integration testing of object-oriented software, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16051>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16051

This thesis examines integration testing of object-oriented software. The process of integrating and testing procedural programs is reviewed as foundation for testing object-oriented software. The complexity of object-oriented software is examined. The relationship of integration testing and the software development life cycle is presented. Scenarios are discussed which account for the introduction of defects into the software. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is chosen for representing pre-implementation and post-implementation models of the software. A demonstration of the technique of using post-implementation models representing the logical and physical views as an aid in integration and system testing of the software is presented. The use of UML diagrams developed from the software is suggested as a technique for integration testing of object-oriented software. The need for automating the data collection and model building is recognized. The technique is integrated into the Revised Spiral Model for Object-Oriented Software Development developed by du Plessis and van der Walt. === Computing === D.Phil. (Computer Science)