Abstract:

In this paper we describe our taxonomy of object-oriented
classes that catalogs each class in an application based
on the characteristics of that class.  We present a mapping 
algorithm that matches the class under test to a list of 
implementation-based testing techniques, providing feedback 
to the tester describing the characteristics of the class 
that are suitably tested by each testing technique together 
with the characteristics that are not suitably tested by any 
of the testing techniques in the list. Our study shows that 
the number of entities to be analyzed by a tester when 
selecting implementation-based testing techniques can be 
reduced by 50 if the class under test is first cataloged 
using our taxonomy of OO classes.