A conformance testing approach for component-based systems

This paper presents an approach for conformance testing of component-based systems based on black box testing. Appropriate testing architectures will be given. Such testing architectures have been standardized and recommended by ISO/Open System Interconnection for conformance testing of open systems especially communication protocols and communicating systems. It consists of testing an implementation against its specification based only on the observational behavior of the implementation. We investigate the reuse of conformance testing and thus the appropriate testing architectures because we believe that this test type can be an appropriate way to improve also correctness of CBS- implementations and generally to support component-based software engineering process.