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Base Classes Unit Testing

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The most significant impact on the testing of object-oriented software is the shift in focus to unit and integration testing strategies[Ove93a]. A class is the basic building block for constructing object-oriented software[PBC93]. Hence, it is the most natural unit of testing. The notion of a class as a unit of testing has been supported by many object-oriented project experience reports [MT W94]. Class-level testing requires substantial effort in the engineering of highly robust and reliable object-oriented systems. Testing of a class in an object-oriented system is not trivial, however. Most of the publicized features of object-oriented software have insidious effects on the application of conventional software testing approaches to unit testing.

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Bashir, I., Goel, A.L. (1999). Base Classes Unit Testing. In: Testing Object-Oriented Software. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1526-4_6

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