Test Engineering

Testing Object-Oriented Systems takes software/systems engineering approach to test design and test automation. Scan the list of chapters for a brief overview. You can also view the complete table of contents.

It is a comprehensive guide to testing object-oriented systems, organized as a desk reference. It starts with basic testing concepts and then shows what is unique about testing object-oriented software. Test models based on state machines, combinational logic, and the UML provide a systematic and practical foundation. Over sixty patterns present concepts and techniques for test design and test automation.

Pattern-Based Test Design

The book introduces the test design pattern. This new pattern template focuses explicitly on the key dimensions of test design: When is a particular test strategy appropriate? What kind of bugs will it find? How do you develop a test suite -- how should the implementation under test be modeled, and how are test cases produced from the model and its oracle? What kind of test automation works best? What are the testing entry and exit criteria? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Who has used this pattern?

The book presents 37 test design patterns based on this template. They cover testing of methods, classes/clusters, subsystems, reusable components, frameworks, and systems. They address responsibility-based testing, integration testing, and regression testing at all these scopes. Seventeen design patterns for test automation support test tool development, and 16 micro-patterns for test oracles show how to produce expected results.