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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Information Request on Object-Oriented Testing
Message-ID: <1496@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 13 Oct 89 07:06:06 GMT
References: <25704@santra.UUCP> <601@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
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In article <601@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) writes:
>In article <25704@santra.UUCP>, jar@hila.hut.fi (Jari Arkko) writes:
>> 
>> I'm looking for information on testing object-oriented or data-driven
>> programs. I have not been able to find any references, so if anyone
>> out there knows papers about this area, please point me to them.
>>
>[...]
>[a lot of useful discussion]
>[...]
>	3. Since object-oriented systems are naturally concurrent (at
>	   least conceptually), you have all the problems of testing
>	   concurrent software, e.g., non-determinism. [...]
>[...]

What?
In my opinion, object-orientation and concurrency are totally
independent features; most current OO languages are just as sequential
as Pascal or Fortran. It is another thing that object-orientation
is a nice basis for building good concurrent languages, too.

The important thing in this context is that you need _not_ tackle
the complexities of concurrency and indeterminism,
which is very lucky for you.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland