Teste de integração para sistemas baseados em componentes.

Abstract

As the connectivity between components is a concern of Component-Based Software, verifying the interaction between these components becomes essential to get a final product quality. Tests are produced in order to guarantee that the combining of system components yields an expected behavior. These tests are known as integration tests. Although considerable efforts have been carried out, there still exists a great absence of effective methods and techniques of integration test that cover all the necessary stages, in order to have a complete test process of components point of view. The objective of this work is to supply a method for testing the integration between the components that constitute a system. This method is simple and efficient, besides being linked to a clear-cut component development process. The test devices are generated from UML (Unified Modelling Language), that is a widely used specification language, facilitating the use of this method for a large part of the software engineering community. The method supplies a potential for automation, since its pratical use is dependt on this. A case study is also presented to demonstrate the method application.