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Most large software systems are architected as component-based systems. In such systems, components are developed and tested separately. As components cooperate for providing services, testing of a component also reveals defects in other components. In this paper we study the role testing of other components plays in finding defects in a component by analyzing defect data of an earlier version of Windows. Our analysis shows that testing of other components often is the largest source of finding defects in a component. The analysis also shows that though many components reveal defects in a component, often a small set of components – the Test Buddies – exists whose testing reveals the vast majority of the defects found by testing other components. The Test Buddies of a component are those with a heavy interaction with the component and represent the high priority customers for testing. The Test Buddy information for a system can be determined by the test data of an earlier release, and then can be used in different ways to improve the testing.
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Jalote, P., Munshi, R., Probsting, T. (2006). Components Have Test Buddies. In: Gorton, I., et al. Component-Based Software Engineering. CBSE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4063. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783565_22
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