Testing Ada 95 Object-Oriented Programs

We show some of the specific problems for testing software introduced by the object-oriented features of Ada 95, and focus on specificationbased testing, since this strategy is the key strategy for testing object-oriented software. We present a theory for testing software by refinement of an exhaustive test set into a finite test set using three reduction hypothesis. We also show how the Oracle problem can be partially solved using some particular features of Ada 95.