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A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software
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A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software

by John D. McGregor, David A. Sykes
March 2001
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
10h 27m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Specifying Distributed Objects

Interface Definition Language

The specification for service providers is usually written in an interface definition language (IDL). Since they are only for specification, the IDLs are simpler than a programming language. The IDL specification provides several pieces of information that are useful for testing purposes:

  • signature— The main portion of the IDL specification is the usual signature for a method. This includes the name of the method, the types of each of the parameters, and the type of the return object, if any. The standard techniques for sampling values for each of these parameters should be followed in constructing test cases.

  • one-way— This designation signals an asynchronous message. Testing messages ...

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