Saturday, January 24, 2009

Component Testing

The January 2009 issue of Software Test & Performance has an article on Better Quality Through Software Reuse. The author recommends a reusable component size of 700-800 lines of code with about 3,000 lines of test code. Then you need to document the component both for the application designers who need to understand when to use the component and for coders who need to know component details. Then off to white-box and black-box testing. So while reusable components are a great idea, they take considerably more work to create initially...