Reuse

Abstract

Testing effort consumes more than half of all development effort and is one of the important factors, which obstruct quality assurance. Software reuse enhances quality and productivity and at the same time reduces the time-to-market of the software products. As reuse applies to the development process, so too, it applies to the testing process. In this paper, we discuss reuse-oriented test approaches, which are used to reduce the testing effort. Further, we present the state-of-the-art in reuse-oriented test approaches employed in reuseoriented development processes. At the end of the current paper, we argue that the current trend is towards built-in test and model based testing in the applications developed through reusable software.