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Design Patterns for Test and Testability
of applications having Concurrent Architecture and multithreaded
design patterns. (TTCA patterns)
The literature shows that the Pattern
community has yet to fully explore the pragmatics of Software
Test engineering. Our approach to this topic starts with
the Architectural Patterns as a framework for beginning
to fill in some of the Test and Testability Patterns used
in software development and software maintenance. Patterns
at various levels based on the experiences of the group
will be presented and discussed.
Examples of TTCA patterns:
1. Combinatorial path testing of multithreaded process.
2. Variant on multiprocessor and distributed systems.
3. Progressive Sync Relaxation.
4. Fault-Injection patterns - to evaluate coverage of test
cases
5. Test Instrumentation.
6. Built-In Test Instrumentation.
Some of the kinds of things that can be
done in the focus group for TTCA patterns are:
" Explore Architectural process patterns
affecting the Test process patterns.
" Explore the testability characteristics
of various Architectural Patterns supporting or using multi-threading.
" Explore a variety of GoF-level
Testability Patterns and show their relationship to architectures.
Contact: John Prieur
Software Engineer
Kofile, Inc.
jprieur@kofile.com
585-424-1950x248
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