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Re: Reuse Discussion Topics (Was: Reuse and Software Components)

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From: David Emery
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 17:45
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One of the important topics in reuse, which the POSIX people have
started to address, is conformance testing.  The current POSIX
approach of hand-generating test assertions, which are then
hand-transformed into a test suite, is a good start.  However, there's
entirely too much hand-xxx in the process.  

Note that the move towards language-independence (LI) will compound the
problem, as there will be two kinds of assertions.  The LI assertions
will test the abstract semantics (Create() creates a new file), and
there will be additional assertions/tests for the concrete semantics
of the language binding (e.g.  errno values for C, exceptions for
Ada, etc.)

				dave
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