Integrated Object-Oriented Framework-Based Testing Environment

Object-oriented frameworks provide reusable design, implementation, and testing for a family of software systems. Several non-integrated testing techniques are introduced to test the frameworks and their applications at different engineering stages and testing levels. This paper introduces an environment in which four framework-based testing techniques are integrated. The testing techniques are originally introduced to test the framework and hooks during the domain engineering stage, and to re-test the framework and test the framework interface classes during the application engineering stage. The integration is proposed in such a way that the testing redundancy is minimized and the testing reusability is maximized. Key-Words: object-oriented framework, object-oriented testing, test case generation.