Extending patterns with testing implementation

VV&T activities are a present concern in the context of patterns, as patterns are used for software development, maintenance, and reengineering, and this type of activity is necessary to assure the quality both of the solutions and of the delivered products. Although VV&T activities are important, they are not always performed as they should be, due to the associated time and cost. In this context, this paper proposes a strategy that aggregates test resources to software patterns. This allows reusing not only solutions in a certain context, but also the corresponding test resources needed to validate applications. Reengineering case studies were conducted with the support of a pattern language, through which it has been possible to observe, although without statistical significance, a meaningful reduction of the time spent with VV&T activities when test resources aggregated to patterns are used.

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