Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page 52) Best Practices Special TEST CASE GENERATION, UML, AND ECLIPSE • Only one participant reached more than 75 percent of the total existing paths; more than 50 percent did not reach the 50 percent of the paths/scenarios. Test cases designed by 50 (70 percent) of the participants hardly surpassed the threshold of 25 percent of total scenarios. • Testers who used activity diagrams as reference designed 70 percent more test cases than those who did not. • Among the 10 most tested paths by all participants, only one (in eighth place) appears in the 10 top priority paths for them. Within the list of the 10 least tested paths, three of the top priority paths are included. Even more, at least 50 percent of the testing effort was dedicated to test something previously tested. • Regarding the usefulness of the method and plug-in, 77 percent of the testers said that AQUABUS would be really costeffective for their organizations, although activity diagrams are needed as part of software specifications. Seventy percent of the participants believe the priority allocated to the different scenarios following the AQUABUS method would be cost-effective. Figure 2: Form for data input activities. Conclusion To encourage good practices for controlling software quality, developers clearly need integrated environments that take advantage of the cross relationships between analysis and modeling. Although existing tools support certain quality assurance activities, integration isn’t always easy because of problems with communication between tools, or the lack of techniques to exploit models for quality control. However, standard notation like UML and open environments like Eclipse make possible useful tools that go one step further in making affordable and convincing implementations of software quality assurance techniques. The AGAPE plug-in lets you concentrate on requirements and models, and with a simple click lets you generate a whole set of test cases with a priority rank. DDJ 52 Figure 3: Class diagram referred to the part of AGAPE in charge of modeling extended diagrams. Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l November 2008 http://www.ddj.com
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer's Notebook Saving Open Source Conversations iPhone Building Your Own Web Server Green Telnet What's New In Boost Threads? Testing Service Oriented Architectures Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse Unit Testing Web Services C3 Programming The Agile Edge Swaine's Flames Effective Concurrency Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page BB1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - (Page BB2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page Cover1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page Cover2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 1) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 2) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 (Page 3) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Contents (Page 4) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Contents (Page 5) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 6) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 7) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 8) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Friday Night Fish Fry (Page 9) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Alia Vox (Page 10) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Alia Vox (Page 11) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer Diaries (Page 12) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer Diaries (Page 13) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer's Notebook (Page 14) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Developer's Notebook (Page 15) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 16) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 17) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 18) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Saving Open Source (Page 19) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Conversations (Page 20) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Conversations (Page 21) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 22) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 23) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 24) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 25) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 26) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - iPhone (Page 27) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 28) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 29) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 30) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 31) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Building Your Own Web Server (Page 32) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 33) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 34) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 35) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 36) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 37) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 38) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Green Telnet (Page 39) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - What's New In Boost Threads? 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(Page 45) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 46) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 47) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Testing Service Oriented Architectures (Page 48) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 49) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 50) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 51) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Test Case Generation, UML, and Eclipse (Page 52) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 53) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 54) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 55) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 56) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 57) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Unit Testing Web Services (Page 58) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 59) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 60) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 61) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 62) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - C3 Programming (Page 63) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 64) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 65) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 66) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - The Agile Edge (Page 67) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 68) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 69) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 70) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Effective Concurrency (Page 71) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page 72) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page Cover3) Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 2008 - Swaine's Flames (Page Cover4)
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