Test blueprints - Exposing side effects in execution traces to support writing unit tests

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 83-92

  Lienhard, Adrian ^a   Gîrba, Tudor ^a   Greevy, Orla ^a   Nierstrasz, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Object flow analysis; Software maintenance; Unit testing

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CASE STUDIES; EUROPEAN; EXECUTION TRACES; EXPECTED EFFECTS; MAINTENANCE TASKS; NON-TRIVIAL; OBJECT FLOW ANALYSIS; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMS; RUN-TIME; SIDE EFFECTS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; TRACING METHOD; UNIT TESTING; UNIT UNDER TESTS;

TESTING;

EID: 49049108193     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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