Synopsis "component-based software testing with uml"
component-based software development regards software construction in terms of conventional engineering disciplines where the assembly of systems from readily-available prefabricated parts is the norm. because both component-based systems themselves and the stakeholders in component-based development projects are different from traditional software systems, component-based testing also needs to deviate from traditional software testing approaches. gross first describes the specific challenges related to component-based testing like the lack of internal knowledge of a component or the usage of a component in diverse contexts. he argues that only built-in contract testing, a test organization for component-based applications founded on building test artifacts directly into components, can prevent catastrophic failures like the one that caused the now famous ariane 5 crash in 1996. since building testing into components has implications for component development, built-in contract testing is integrated with and made to complement a model-driven development method. here uml models are used to derive the testing architecture for an application, the testing interfaces and the component testers. the method also provides a process and guidelines for modeling and developing these artifacts. this book is the first comprehensive treatment of the intricacies of testing component-based software systems. with its strong modeling background, it appeals to researchers and graduate students specializing in component-based software engineering. professionals architecting and developing component-based systems will profit from the uml-based methodology and the implementation hints based on the xunit and junit frameworks.
