Author(s)

Mengqing TanLi¹, Ying Zhang², Yulin Wang²

¹School of Software, University of South China, Hunan, China.
²School of Mechanical Engineering, University of South China, Hunan, China.

In this paper, the new organization for unit testing embedding pair-wise mode is proposed with the core thought focused on the cooperation of programmer and tester by “cross-testing”. The typical content of unit testing for the new organizing mode should have three aspects, including self-checking, cross-testing and independent-testing. For cross-testing, executing “pair-wise” mode, mainly tackles data testing, function testing and state testing, which function testing must be done by details and state testing must be considered for completeness. With the specializing of independent-testing, it should be taken as more rigid testing without arbitrariness. Consequently, strategy and measure are addressed for data testing focusing on boundary testing and function/state testing. And organizing method of procedure and key points of tackling unit testing are investigated for the new organizing mode. In order to assess the validity of our study and approach, a series of actual examples are demonstrated for GUI software. The result indicates that the execution of unit testing for the new organizing mode is effective and applicable.

Unit Testing, Organizing Architecture, Pair-Wise Mode, Cross-Testing, Data Testing, Function/State Testing, Boundary Testing, Small Team

TanLi, M. , Zhang, Y. and Wang, Y. (2022) Architecture and Methodology of Unit Testing Embedding Pair-Wise Mode for Small Team. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 15, 385-405. doi: 10.4236/jsea.2022.1511022.