Reflective Architecture Based Software Testing Management Model

Abstract

The development of Internet requires that application environment turns from closed and static to open and dynamic. People have increasingly attached importance to research on software testing management method. The current main problem in software testing management research is how to effectively manage the whole software testing process. Through research on V Model and W Model in software testing management, these models have themselves inherent limitations and are largely impractical. Reflective architectures are used to allow a software system to define its behavior at runtime based on information that can be stored in metadata. This paper proposes RATMM - reflective architecture based software testing management model. The model integrates reflection theory and software architecture design method, constructed software testing management model by using meta-information theory and meta-model method. RATMM is logically divided into meta-level and base-level. Meta-level and base-level are interrelated. Meta object captures condition and behavior of base-level, meta-level makes the corresponding metacomputing. Meta-level reflects the changes in meta-information to base-level after computing. Based on the description of its own condition and behavior, RATMM can adjust the testing process, obtain information about structure and behavior of testing process, and build software testing management model by reflective architecture. The model allows the user to modify condition of a software testing process without programming. RATMM exists in the entire testing life cycle, as well as verifies and confirms the whole process of the system