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Component engineering is gaining substantial interest in the software engineering community. A lot of research efforts have been devoted to the analysis and design methods for component-based software. However, only few papers address the testing of software components and component-based software. This paper focuses on how to build testable software components by increasing the testability of software components. The paper introduces the concept of testable bean, and proposes a new way to construct a testable bean based on a testable architecture and well-defined built-in interfaces. In addition, the paper also reports our efforts on developing a test bed to achieve automation for test beans.
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Gao, J., Gupta, K., Gupta, S., Shim, S. (2002). On Building Testable Software Components. In: Dean, J., Gravel, A. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45588-4_11
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