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Automated Generation of Wrapper to Test Components  

Song, Ho-Jin (한국 NCR 테라데이타)
Choi, Eun-Man (동국대학교 컴퓨터멀티미디어공학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.8, 2005 , pp. 704-716 More about this Journal
Abstract
Assembling new software systems from Prepared components is an attractive alternative to traditional software development method to reduce development cost and schedule dramatically. However, if separately developed components are tested, integrated and verified with unreasonable effort and high cost, it would not be an effective way to software development. Components are not distributed in the shape of white-box source code so that should be hard to validate and test in new application environment. For solving this problem, built-in tester components are suggested to check the contract-compliance of their server components. If components have various and complex function, built-in tester should be heavy and unflexible to test in composition of components. This paper suggests enhancing automated wrapper technique which substitutes with built-in tester components and shows the usability of the wrapper by design and implementation. Component testing in this way reduces the cost and effort associated with preparation of component testing and makes the various test experiments in components assembly.
Keywords
Component-Based Software Development; Software Test; Test Automation; Test Tools;
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