Object Oriented Testing Techniques: Survey and Challenges

Object-oriented programs involve many unique features that are not present in their conventional counterparts. Examples are message passing, synchronization, dynamic binding, object instantiation, persistence, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Testing for such program is, therefore, more difficult than that for conventional programs. Object-orientation has rapidly become accepted as the preferred paradigm for large-scale system design. In this paper, the authors have discussed about how testing is being carried out in the Object Oriented environment. To accommodate this, several new techniques have been proposed like fault-based techniques, Scenario based, Surface structure testing, and Deep structural testing.