題名: Integration Object-Oriented Software Testing and Metrics
作者: Chi-Ming Chung;Timothy K. Shih;Chun-Chia Wang;Ming-Chi Lee
關鍵詞: Software testing;software metrics;class hierarchy;Unit Repeated Inheritance (URI);Inheritance Level Technique (ILT)
日期: 1997-7
上傳時間: 2009-12-03T08:32:07Z
出版者: Asia University
摘要: Software testing methodologies and metrics are key issues to improve and assure software quality. They are important areas in the research of Software Engineering. However, not many focus on the testing criteria and metrics evaluation of a class hierarchy. This paper introduces an important concept named URI (Unit Repeated Inheritance) to realize integrated object-oriented testing and object-oriented metrics. The approach describes an ILT (Inheritance Level Technique) method as a guide to test object-oriented software errors and measure the software complexity of a class hierarchy. The proposed technique shows that inheritance has a close relation to object-oriented software
complexity and reveals that overuse of repeated(multiple) inheritance will increase software complexity and be prone to implicit software errors. Also, two test criteria: intra level first and inter level first are presented.