Black-box understanding of COTS components
Korel, B.
Program Comprehension, 1999. Proceedings. Seventh International Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 1999 Page(s):92 - 99
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/WPC.1999.777748
Summary:Developers have to identify properties of COTS components to
properly integrate them with a system under development, but COTS
components are typically “black boxes” because their source
code is not available. We present an approach that can be used in
black-box understanding of COTS components. The major objective is to
reduce the effort required to reveal component properties by partially
automating interface probing. A developer provides a full or partial
description of a component property, together with a search scope where
assertions are used to describe component properties. Based on this
information, a search engine automatically searches for component inputs
on which the component property is revealed using a combination of
existing automated test generation methods for black-box testing and for
white-box testing. Our initial experience has shown that this approach
may be a cost-effective way of revealing properties of components
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