TY - GEN
T1 - On test data generation of object-oriented software
AU - ARCURI, Andrea
AU - YAO, Xin
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Nowadays, Object-Oriented (00) languages are widely used in the development of many different kinds of applications. However, testing those applications is still very expensive and time-consuming for the software community. The automation of this task would therefore be highly desirable. Although automatic testing of procedural software has been studied in depth for many years, comparatively little work has been done about OO software. Different techniques exist. However, the most promising one is probably to model the task as a Search Problem. This paper explains why automatic testing of OO software is more difficult than procedural software. These difficulties provide strong challenges to the Natural Computation and Software Engineering communities. A brief review of the literature of the subject follows. The issues of the current State-of-Art of the field are then outlined. Finally, some open research problems are discussed.
AB - Nowadays, Object-Oriented (00) languages are widely used in the development of many different kinds of applications. However, testing those applications is still very expensive and time-consuming for the software community. The automation of this task would therefore be highly desirable. Although automatic testing of procedural software has been studied in depth for many years, comparatively little work has been done about OO software. Different techniques exist. However, the most promising one is probably to model the task as a Search Problem. This paper explains why automatic testing of OO software is more difficult than procedural software. These difficulties provide strong challenges to the Natural Computation and Software Engineering communities. A brief review of the literature of the subject follows. The issues of the current State-of-Art of the field are then outlined. Finally, some open research problems are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344101
DO - 10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344101
M3 - Conference paper (refereed)
AN - SCOPUS:48049118819
SN - 9780769529844
T3 - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference : Practice And Research Techniques (TAICPART)
SP - 72
EP - 76
BT - Proceedings: Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques, TAIC PART: Mutation 2007
PB - IEEE
T2 - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference: Practice and Research Techniques
Y2 - 12 September 2007 through 14 September 2007
ER -