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Reliable Objects: Lightweight Testing for OO Languages. David Mattingly. Problems addressed. Based on waterfall model – not on iterative models. No longer feasible to separate testing from specification, design, coding. Not based upon inherent power of OO. Specifying behavior.
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Reliable Objects:Lightweight Testing for OO Languages David Mattingly
Problems addressed • Based on waterfall model – not on iterative models. • No longer feasible to separate testing from specification, design, coding. • Not based upon inherent power of OO.
Specifying behavior • Must know what each component should do in every situation • No formal specification language
Design by Contract • Lightweight descriptions • Captures mutual obligations and benefits • Must specify every consistency condition • Boolean assertions
Implementation • Implementations exist in Eiffel, Java, C++, Perl. • Eiffel only language to directly support design by contract. • All other languages rely on outside utilities.
Java Implementation • Example from Pylon library (www.nenie.org/eiffel/pylon) • Source code with self-testable classes at www.iu-vannes.fr/docinfo/stclass
Java Design by Contract • Contract Watchdogs • trace and assert
Implementation 1 • Call inherited functions directly in code. • Another level of inheritance. • Calls inside methods can be forgotten about.
Implementation 2 • Contract definition in comments • Preprocessor • iContract (www.reliable-systems.com/tools)
Making self-testable classes • Define pre and post-conditions in comments. • Interface inheritance and Delegation. • Testing methods: testing unit & goal
Validation & Verification • Compile with iContract & Java compiler. • Output details results of tests.
Abstract Classes • Cannot be self-testable • Can define contracts • Implementing classes inherit contracts
Mutation Testing • Determine how adequate our tests our. • Adequate Test set distinguishes the original program from mutants.