Xref: utzoo comp.object:1483 comp.lang.c++:8524 comp.lang.eiffel:1013
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!mdsmith
From: mdsmith@axion.bt.co.uk (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Testing OO programs - refs.
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.075610.16502@axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 19 Jul 90 07:56:10 GMT
Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk
Reply-To: mdsmith@axion.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs
Lines: 51
Organisation: British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH UK

From article <1990Jul16.175806.7987@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, by erradi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Erradi Mohamed):
> I'm looking for references about testing object oriented systems. Your help
> will be very appreciated.
> 
> thanks in advance. 
> 
> E-mail: erradi@iro.umontreal.ca

There have been a couple of requests for info on OO testing, so I thought I'd give a
quick summary of the two main articles that I have. 
The first is by S.P. Fiedler, from the HP journal. In BibTeX form,the ref. is :

@ARTICLE{Fiedler:89,
AUTHOR = "S.P. Fiedler",
TITLE = "Object-Oriented Unit Testing",
JOURNAL = "HP Journal",
VOLUME = 36,
NUMBER = 4,
YEAR = 1989,
MONTH = "April"
}

The second (anybody who doesn't have this?) is by D.E. Perry and G.E. Kaiser,
from JOOP. In BibTeX form, the ref. is :

@ARTICLE{Perry:90,
AUTHOR = "D.E. Perry and G.E.Kaiser",
TITLE = "Adequate Testing and Object-Oriented Programming",
JOURNAL = "Journal of Object-Oriented Programming",
VOLUME = 2,
NUMBER = 5,
PAGES = "13-19",
YEAR = 1990,
MONTH = "Jan/Feb"
}

If anyone else has any other references, then I'd be glad to hear from them (also
if they're even working in this area). My research is currently in this area, and I have
a technical report entitled "Object-Oriented Programming - the Problems of Validation"
available from the address below. There's also the workshop on testing OO systems
at this years OOPSLA/ECOOP - hope to see you there.

Mike Smith

Centre for Software Maintenance,
University of Durham,
South Road,
Durham DH1 3LE,
England.

smike@uk.ac.durham.easby - JANET