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Assuring testability of distributed objects is especially important because today testers usually view object applications from the perspective of native (with the full access to the source code) and foreign objects (only on-line access to object methods). Taking it into account, the paper defines three levels of object accessibility, i.e., limited, partly limited and full access levels. It discusses possibility of testing objects at each level. The article reviews existing mechanisms for object testability in the context of the current CORBA standard. The paper also discusses possibility of increasing the testability degree by adding means for observability of the internal states of objects and using existing mechanisms for monitoring communication actions among distributed objects.
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Sławińska, M. (2004). Testability of Distributed Objects. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24669-5_54
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