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Article #7Re: Reuse Discussion Topics (Was: Reuse and Software Components)
From: David Emery
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 17:45
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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Newsgroups: comp.sw.components Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!linus!linus.mitre.org!linus!mbunix!emery From: emery@Dr_No.mitre.org (David Emery) Subject: Re: Reuse Discussion Topics (Was: Reuse and Software Components) In-Reply-To: kuhn@swe.ncsl.nist.gov's message of 2 Nov 92 14:02:57 GMT Message-ID: <EMERY.92Nov2124532@Dr_No.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: dr_no.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. References: <1992Oct29.182814.17630@den.mmc.com> <6597@dove.nist.gov> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 17:45:32 GMT Lines: 14