RECENT TRENDS IN OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE TESTING NIT, Rourkela (22nd - 24th June, 2009)

RECENT TRENDS IN OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE TESTING NIT, Rourkela
(22nd - 24th June, 2009)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, NIT, Rourkela was established in 1982. Since its inception, the Department is under dynamic progress and is able to establish the reputation for imparting quality education both at undergraduate and graduate programmes. The department has well equipped modern laboratories such as Software Engineering, Information Security & Data Communication, Image Processing & Cluster Computing and Advanced Database Engineering Labs for pursuing research keeping in view of the technological advancement.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
A large number of software fails due to lack of proper testing. Testing is an important activity in the software development process. It takes maximum effort among all the phases. The objective of software testing is to identify all defects existing in the software product. However, for most practical systems, even after satisfactorily carrying out the testing phase, it is not possible to guarantee that the software is error free. This is because of the fact that the input data domain of most softwares products is very large. It is not practical to test the software exhaustively with respect to each value that the input data may assume. Even with this practical limitation of the testing process, the importance of testing should not be underestimated. It must be remembered that testing does expose many defects existing in software products. So, testing provides a practical way of reducing defects in a system & increasing the user’s confidence in a developed system.
Testing traditional software is relatively easy. But testing of OOPs is very difficult. Though the O-O features such as inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding etc. are the greatest strengths of OO software, but they pose special difficulties in the testing process. So, one has to give special attention while testing OO softwares.
In this workshop, the issues related with testing OO softwares will be highlighted. The recent trends in testing of OO software will be presented by eminent experts. Now-a-days, the testing of OO software is based on design documents such as UML diagrams, rather than the source codes, due to several advantages. So, in this workshop, various UML diagrams and their applications to testing of O-O software will be discussed. Besides this, the participants will be given hands on in O-O software testing using Rational Rose and TestComplete.

INVITED TALKS
Some invited talks will be delivered by experts from IIT, Kharagpur, faculty members of NIT, Rourkela, experts from other sister NITs and experts from industry.

CONTENTS OF THE WORKSHOP

1. INTRODUCTION TO TESTING
• Black Box Testing
• White Box Testing

2. OBJECT-ORIENTED TESTING STRATEGIES
• Unit Testing in the O-O Context
• Integration Testing in the O-O Context
• Validation Testing in the O-O Context

3. TEST CASE DESIGN FOR O-O SOFTWARE
• Fault-Based Testing
• Scenario-Based Testing
• Testing Surface Structure and Deep Structure

4. TESTING METHODS APPLICABLE AT THE CLASS LEVEL
• Random Testing for O-O Classes
• Partition Testing at the Class Level

5. INTERCLASS TEST CASE DESIGN
• Multiple Class Testing
• Tests Derived from Behavior Models

6. INTRODUCTION TO UML DIAGRAMS

7. TESTING OF O-O SOFTWARE USING UML DIAGRAMS

8. TESTING USING PROGRAM SLICES

9. CASE TOOLS: RATIONAL ROSE & TEST COMPLETE

CALL FOR PAPERS
The workshop also invites original research papers in the areas of O-O Software Engineering, Model Based Software Testing, Program Slicing and its application to Testing, Testing with Evolutionary algorithms, Aspect-Oriented Programming, etc. The papers should be sent through e-mail to durga@nitrkl.ac.in on or before 11th May 2009. The authors of the selected papers will be informed through email. They will be given 20 minutes time to present their paper in the workshop. The selected papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. The papers should be submitted in IEEE format.

REGISTRATION & FEE PARTICULARS
Applications in the prescribed format and the registration fee in the form of a DD of Rs 300/- (Rupees Three hundred only) drawn in favour of “Continuing Education, NIT, Rourkela” payable at SBI, NIT Branch, Rourkela-8 (Code-2109) must reach the Convener on or before 11th May 2009. Registration fee includes boarding, lodging and workshop materials. Travel expenses shall be borne by the participants.

CORRESPONDENCE
Dr. Durga Prasad Mohapatra
Asistant Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engg.
National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Rourkela-769 008, Orissa, India
Phone: 0661 2462356 (O), 0661 2463356 (R)
Email: durga@nitrkl.ac.in, durgapm2004@yahoo.com

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