UML Profile for Framework Architectures, The

Chapter 6. UML-F based documentation and adaptation of the JUnit testing framework

JUnit (Beck and Gamma, 1998a; Fowler, 2000) is a Java framework that assists in the definition of automated tests. Testing is an important and obligatory part of the eXtreme Programming approach for software development (Beck, 1999; Beck and Fowler, 2000). This chapter provides a brief UML-F based documentation of JUnit and a set of JUnit adaptation cookbook recipes. It shows how they can be used to guide its adaptation process. Thus, it illustrates how UML-F annotations and cookbook recipes assist in framework adaptation, demonstrating an effective way to support the required adaptation steps.

In this chapter we use a simplified version of JUnit. The source code ...