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Advanced Topics: Object-Oriented Testing

Intro
- "Software testing is the process of testing the functionality and correctness of software by running it. Software testing is usually performed for one of two reasons: (1) defect detection, and (2) reliability estimation. The problem of applying software testing to defect detection is that software can only suggest the presence of flaws, not their absence (unless the testing is exhaustive). The problem of applying software testing to reliability estimation is that the input distribution used for selecting test cases may be flawed. In both of these cases, the mechanism used to determine whether program output is correct (known as an oracle) is often impossible to develop. Obviously the benefit of the entire software testing process is highly dependent on many different pieces. If any of these parts is faulty, the entire process is compromised." (Reliable Software Technologies).
- Software testing is the most visible activity in the Software Quality Assurance, which is, perhaps, the most critical activity in a software project. It is not a quick glance through application's menus. It is not about catching bugs. It is about making sure that the software product satisfies the customer's needs by preventing bugs. If such happened, that bug appeared, QA is about describing it, locating, fixing, merging the fix and looking for the bug cause.
Contents
Other pages
- OOAD Methods
- Metrics

Start here
- How to do Good Testing (Brian Marick)
- Issues in the Testing of Object-Oriented Software (Edward V. Berard)
- OO Testing: Myth and Reality (Robert V. Binder)
- Notes on Object-Oriented Testing: Part 1, Part 2 (Brian Marick)
- Testing OO Systems: A Status Report (Robert V. Binder)
- When you must rethink your test strategies (Linda Hayes)
Examples
- Case Study in Testing Object-Oriented Software - Production Cell (Stéphane Barbey)
Central Sites
- Hotlist Directory (Reliable Software Technologies)
- OO Testing (About RSP&A)
- Software QA and Testing (Rick Hower)
- Software Testing and Online Resources (Roland H. Untch)
Link Collections
- Marick's Corner (Brian Marick)
- Open Directory
- Prüfen und Testen von Software [German] (Uwe Müller)
- Software Testing (Kerry Zallar)
- Software Testing Hotlist (Bret Pettichord)
- Software Testing Resources (Applied Testing and Technology)
- Quality World
- Software Quality HotList (Software Research Institute)
- Testing Object-Oriented Software (Stéphane Barbey)
Search
- Altavista
- Dejanews
FAQs
- comp.software.testing FAQ (Danny Faught)
- Software QA and Testing (Rick Hower)
General Newsgroups
- comp.software.testing
- comp.software.testing Archive (Dejanews)
- comp.risks
- comp.risks Archive (Dejanews)
- comp.risks Resources (PHOAKS)
Mailing Lists
General Articles
- Classic Testing Mistakes (Brian Marick)
- Integrating Object-Oriented Testing and Development Processes (Software Architects)
- Managing Object-Oriented Integration and Regression Testing (M. Winter)
- Object Testing Patterns (Software Development magazine)
- Software Component Quality (Richard Veryard)
- Software Test Coverage Analysis (Bullseye Testing Technology)
- Testing Object-Oriented Software (Stéphane Barbey)
- Testing OO Software Using the Category-Partition Method (Jeff Offutt and Alisa Irvine)
- The FREE Approach to Testing OO Software: An Overview (Robert V. Binder)
- Questionnaire on OO-Test Tools (TOOP)
- A UML Testing Framework (Software Development magazine)
Special Articles
- C++ Defensive Programming: Firewalls and Debugging Information (ParaSoft)
- Testing OO Code (Neil Hunt)
- Testing Smalltalk Applications (OOPSLA95)
Bibliographies
- Bibliography (Bob Binder)
- Bibliography (Roland H. Untch)
- Bibliography (Software Research)
- Bibliography (Software Quality Engineering)
- Bibliography (Stéphane Barbey)
- Bibliography (University of Karlsruhe)
- Papers on Testing (John D. McGregor)
- Papers (Reliable Software Technologies)
Books
- comp.software.testing FAQ (Danny Faught)
- Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools (Robert V. Binder)
Magazines
- Testing Techniques Newsletter (Software Research)
- Software Testing & Quality Engineering (Software Quality Engineering)
Organizations
- Research Groups, Organizations, and Companies (Roland H. Untch)
- Testing & validation SIG (OMG)
- TAV-Arbeitskreis "Testen objekt-orientierter Programme" [German] (GI-Fachgruppe 2.1.7)
People
- Directory of Software Testers and Consultants (Roland H. Untch)
- Who's Who in Object-Oriented Testing (RBSC)
- Who's Who in Software Testing Research (Roland H. Untch)
- Testing Contractors and Consultants List (Brian Marick)
Utilities / Tools
- Testing Tools Supplier List (Brian Marick)
- Ada Analyzer (Rational Software)
- AdaTest (IPL)
- AssertMate (Reliable Software Technologies)
- Cantata++ (Reliable Software Technologies)
- CenterLine C++ (Centerline Software)
- CMT++ (Testwell Oy)
- CTC++ (Testwell Oy)
- CodeWizard (ParaSoft)
- CodeWizard C++ (ParaSoft)
- C++ Tool Set (ObjectSoftware)
- DeepCover (Reliable Software Technologies)
- HindSight (IntegriSoft)
- Insure++ (ParaSoft)
- iSight++ (IntegriSoft)
- jtest! (ParaSoft)
- JStyle (Man Machine Systems)
- LOGISCOPE (VERILOG)
- McCabe QA (McCabe & Associates)
- McCabe Test (McCabe & Associates)
- McCabe Visual Assure (McCabe & Associates)
- ObjectCenter (Centerline Software)
- Panorama (International Software Automation)
- PureCoverage (Rational)
- Purify, Purify , (Rational) (NT)
- Quantify (Rational)
- SQA Suite (Rational)
- SunTest Suite (Sun Microsystems)
- TBGEN (Testwell Oy)
- TCMON (Testwell Oy)
- TestCenter (Centerline Software)
- Testmate for Ada (Rational Software)
- TestWorks (Software Research)
- TOOTSIE: A High-end OO Development Environment (RBSC Corporation) (Robert V. Binder)
- Visual Quantify (Rational Software)
- Visual Test (Rational Software)
- VisualTestCoverage (IBM)
- WhiteBox (Reliable Software Technologies)
Other Resources
- Testing Courses List (Brian Marick)

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