Testing Commercial-off-the-Shelf Components and Systems

Sami Beydeda is a research associate at the computer science department of the University of Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include quality assurance of software components and component-based systems. Sami Beydeda has written his PhD on "The Self-Testing COTS Components (STECC) Method" and has published several articles on testing in component-based development. He was responsible for several software development project in industry, in the financial sector in particular, and for research projects at the Universities of Dortmund and Leipzig. Sami Beydeda is a program committee member of COMPSAC 2004, Workshop on Quality Assurance and Testing of Web-Based Applications 2004, AICCSA 2005.

Testing Components Context-Independently.- Testing Polymorphic Behavior of Framework Components.- COTS Component Testing through Built-In Test.- COTS Component Testing through Aspect-Based Metadata.- Automatic Testing of Exception Handling Code.- Basic Concepts and Terms.- Testing Components in the Context of a System.- A Process and Role-Based Taxonomy of Techniques to Make Testable COTS Components.- Evaluating the Integrability of COTS Components - Software Product Family Viewpoint.- A User-Oriented Framework for Component Deployment Testing.- Modeling and Implementation of Built-In Contract Tests.- Using a Specification Approach to Facilitate Component Testing.- A Methodology of Component Integration Testing.- Context of the Book.- Testing Component-Based Systems.- Modeling and Validation of Publish/Subscribe Architectures.- Performance Testing of Distributed Component Architectures.- A Generic Environment for COTS Testing and Quality Prediction.- Automatic Testing for Robustness Violations.- Testing Component-Based Systems Using FSMs.