Abstract

The report is a result of an activity within the project Centre for
Object Technology (COT), case 2. In case 2 a number of pilot projects
have been carried out to test the feasibility of using object
technology within embedded software. Some of the pilot projects have
resulted in proto-types that are currently being developed into
production versions. To assure a high quality in the product it was
decided to carry out an ac-tivity regarding issues in testing OO
software.

The purpose of this report is to discuss the issues of testing
object-oriented software. It is often claimed that testing of OO
software is radically different form testing traditional software
developed using imperative/procedural programming. Other authors claim
that there is no difference. In this report we will attempt to give an
answer to these questions (or at least initiate a discussion).