Adequacy Criteria for Testing Polymorphism in the Context of Interactions

摘要

Testing is very important for polymorphic interactions, as the exact interactions or operation calls are unpredictable during design. Therefore, they are vulnerable to defects. Adequacy criteria are required to address thoroughness of testing in this context. Although there are other proposed criteria that concern about inheritance and polymorphism, none of them aims at the context of interactions. This paper proposes 5 adequacy criteria in the view of inheritance and polymorphism. Combined with other criteria from interaction view, they can be applied as criteria to generate and select test cases for object-oriented interaction testing.