The Research On Reliability Testing Of Component-Based Software

With the development of software developing technique, Component-Based Software Development is widely accepted. Building large scale software systems on COTS components, not only decrease the developing and maintenance cost, increase developing efficiency, but also improve the reliability of the systems. However, because of the incremental and iterative characteristic of the component-based software development, new challenges are emerging to the software testing and reliability assurance.We study the characteristic of component-based software, the principal and technique of software reliability testing and reliability assurance. On one hand, we transplant and modify the existing tools to develop an integrated environment for component-based software reliability engineering. The integrated environment is based on the Eclipse platform. On the other hand, we study the new technology for software reliability test based on scenario technique and AOP. We give a new testing solution for CBS and use a prototype system to verify the feasibility of the key technique.In this paper we analyze the main problem in reliability assurance, and experiment new testing methods based on model-drive development, AOP and scenario-based techniques. This is a foundation for the software reliability engineering environment.