Testing Patterns in Action: Designing a Test-Pattern-Based Suite

Bouchaib Falah; Mohammed Akour; Nissrine El Marchoum

doi:10.15866/irecos.v10i5.5963

Testing Patterns in Action: Designing a Test-Pattern-Based Suite

Bouchaib Falah⁽¹⁾, Mohammed Akour^(2*), Nissrine El Marchoum⁽³⁾

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/irecos.v10i5.5963

Abstract

Design patterns constitute a revolution in the field of software engineering, as they emphasize the importance of reuse and its impact on the software process and the software product quality. A special type of design patterns is testing patters; these can be used in the testing phase to reduce redundancy, save time and resources and provide an effective reuse mechanism for more coverage and better quality of service at the same time. Many design patterns exist to test different aspects of the implemented functionality separately. However, in this paper, we will suggest a new concept, which consists of incorporating different testing patterns into the same test suite to test different aspects through running one single test exactly once. It will also allow the users to track the performance of their test suite quality attributes using a simple representation
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Keywords

Software Testing; Test Patterns; Design Patterns; Quality Metrics; Testing Quality

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