Exploiting software architecture to support requirements satisfaction testing
Paul Clements, María José Escalona, Paola Inverardi, Ivano Malavolta, Eda Marchetti · 2011
Currently, software testing is mainly carried on independently from software architecture-related information. Some approaches propose to perform integration and regression testing with respect to software architecture descriptions, but less attention has been paid to analysing software architecture in order to develop a less costly and time-consuming test plan that covers the requirements of the system of interest. If on one side, it is well known that providing an effective test plan is crucial to software quality, on the other side software testing is extremely difficult because it stems from the complexity of current software systems.