Testing software assets of framework-based product families during application engineering stage

Journal of Software

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 11-25

  Al Dallal, Jehad ^a   Sorenson, Paul ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Application engineering; Domain engineering; Hooks; Object oriented framework; Object oriented framework instantiation testing; Test case reusability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; APPLICATION ENGINEERING; APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS; DOMAIN ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HOOKS; OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK; OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK INSTANTIATION TESTING; PRODUCT FAMILIES; SOFTWARE ASSETS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SUPPORTING TOOL; SYSTEM-UNDER-TEST; TEST CASE REUSABILITY; TEST CASES; TESTING SOFTWARE; TESTING TIME; USE CASES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; STAGES; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 78049530817     PISSN: 1796217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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