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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 37 , Issue 9 (September 1994) table of contents

Pages: 59 - 77

Year of Publication: 1994

ISSN:0001-0782

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John D. McGregor	Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC
Timothy D. Korson	Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC and Software Architects

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Morris S. Johnson, Jr., A survey of testing techniques for object-oriented systems, Proceedings of the 1996 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research, p.17, November 12-14, 1996, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	Jean-Marc Jézéquel , Daniel Deveaux , Yves Le Traon, Reliable Objects: Lightweight Testing for OO Languages, IEEE Software, v.18 n.4, p.76-83, July 2001
	Allen Parrish , David Cordes , Brandon Dixon , John McGregor, Class development and testing in the small, Proceedings of the 38th annual on Southeast regional conference, April 07-08, 2000, Clemson, South Carolina
	S. Srinath , K. Venkatesh , D. Janaki Ram, An integrated solution based approach to software development using unified reuse artifacts, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.22 n.4, p.56-60, July 1997
	Muthu Ramachandran, Requirements-driven software test: a process-oriented approach, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.21 n.4, p.66-70, July 1996
	Daniel Robey , Richard Welke , Daniel Turk, Traditional, iterative, and component-based development: A social analysis of software development paradigms, Information Technology and Management, v.2 n.1, p.53-70, January 2001
	Salvatore T. March , Charles A. Wood , Gove N. Allen, Research Frontiers in Object Technology, Information Systems Frontiers, v.1 n.1, p.51-74, July 1999
	Ana C. V. de Melo , Paulo R. F. Nunes , Kleber S. Xavier, Towards verification and testing of Java programs, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing, March 16-20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.4 Software/Program Verification
Subjects: Validation

I. Computing Methodologies
I.6 SIMULATION AND MODELING

K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.3 Software Management
Subjects: Software development

General Terms:
Design, Verification

REVIEW

"Richard A. Baker, Jr. : Reviewer"

McGregor and Korson's paper covers a subject area that I have not seen discussed in print. This survey discusses the differences between the validation of object-oriented software and the validation of traditional software. The dis more...

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