How testable is a software architecture?
Testability is not testing. A (software) system is testable when there is an effective test strategy that can be used to verify the conformance of a particular implementation with respect to its specifications. Vice-versa, a system is tested when a specific test suite has been executed, verifying that such implementation really conforms to its specifications. [...]
Posted at 9:51 pm on August 22, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Design for Testability | Tagged: ccd, component diagram, hierarchical testing, isolation testing, john lakos, levelizable system, linkedin, physical design, testability | read on
Physical design vs. logical design (part II)
In the first instalment of this post, I introduced the notions of physical and logical designs. Then, I introduced three new stereotyped UML dependencies needed to express the relations between classes in terms of both interfaces and implementations. In this post I discuss how to transform a logical design into a physical architecture that can be exploited [...]
Posted at 9:20 pm on July 11, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Design for Testability | Tagged: john lakos, linkedin, logical design, physical design, testability | read on
