Automating the wrapping of software building blocks with test cases
Dominic Seiffert · 2012
Adaptation has become an important issue in software development as often interface mismatches, defined by different mismatch classes, in the context of object- and component-reuse and -integration occur. For overcoming these mismatches various techniques and approaches have emerged over the last years with the ultimative goal of fully automated tool support. The class of signature mismatches for instance, which is an important challenge for developers, is still tackled by manual code modification or manual adapter generation. It is an error prone and time consuming task, since neither appropriate tool support nor standardized evaluations exist. Thus, the idea of the author's envisaged PhD thesis is to provide theory, experiments and evaluation for an automated adapter solution based on the idea of using test cases for semantic validation during the adapter generation process, thereby satisfying the need for overcoming the class of signature mismatches for objects as well as components.