Testing and Quality Assurance for Component Based



ARTECH HOUSE, INC. || ISBN 1-58053-480-5 || 463 Pages || English || PDF || 2.81 MB

What is this book about?
The widespread development and reuse of software components is regarded by many as one of the next biggest phenomena for software. Reusing high-quality software components in software development has the potential for drastically improving the quality and development productivity of component-based software. However, the widespread reuse of a software component with poor quality may literally lead to disasters. Componentbased software engineering involves many unique characteristics, some of which have unintended consequences and side effects. The primary goal of this book is to elaborate on these characteristics, point out possible strengths and weaknesses, and develop methodologies to maximize the quality and productivity potentials associated with development and reuse of software components. Software testing is one of the most important phases in software engineering, and it plays a pivotal role in software quality assurance. This book focuses on testing and the larger context of quality assurance.
Part I provides a general discussion of software components, componentbased software systems, the concomitant testing challenges, and the important issue of testability.
Part II focuses on validation methods for software components.
Part III covers the testing of component-based software systems, including integration testing, regression testing, and performance measurement.
Part IV is devoted to quality assurance for software components and computer-based software systems.

Is this book for you?
This book is intended for professionals and students seeking a systematic treatment of the subjects of component-based software testing and quality assurance. We have attempted to provide a balanced report about the state of the practice and recent research findings regarding the new issues and their solutions. Therefore, researchers should also find this book useful. This book can also be used for training software testing and quality assurance engineers because it provides them with a comprehensive understanding of software testing and quality assurance in general. In addition, this book can be used as a textbook for a software testing and quality assurance course at the graduate or undergraduate upper-division levels—the instructor may need to supplement the book with some class projects and/or homework exercises.

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