NDLI: Understanding Plug-in Test Suites from an Extensibility Perspective

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Greiler, M. Gross, H.-G. van Deursen, A.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Plug-in architectures enable developers to build extensible software products. Such products are assembled from plug-ins, and their functionality can be enriched by adding or configuring plug-ins. The plug-ins themselves consist also of multiple plug-ins, and offer dedicated points through which their functionality can be influenced. A well-known example of such an architecture is Eclipse, best known for its use to create a series of extensible IDEs. In order to test systems built from plug-ins developers use extensive automated test suites. Unfortunately, current testing tools offer little insight in which of the many possible combinations of plug-ins and plug-in configurations are actually tested. To remedy this problem, we propose three architectural views that provide an extensibility perspective on plug-in-based systems and their test suites. The views combine static and dynamic information on plug-in dependencies, extension initialization, and extension usage. The views are implemented in ETSE, the Eclipse Plug-in Test Suite Exploration tool. We evaluate the proposed views by analyzing eGit and Mylyn, two open source Eclipse plug-ins.
Starting Page	67
Ending Page	76
File Size	608076
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424489114
ISSN	10951350
DOI	10.1109/WCRE.2010.16
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-10-13
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Testing Computer architecture Software Unified modeling language XML Java Visualization Model extraction Eclipse Plug-in Extension Points Modularization
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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