Integration test

System Integration Test
MOHAMMAD SADEGH SALEHI
FARDIN KAVYANI
Fall 2015

System Integration Test - Fall 2015
Agenda
3/20
Introduction
The Concept of Integration Testing
Component / Module testing
Why do we do integration testing?
The major advantages of conducting SIT
Granularity of System Integration Testing
Drivers and Stubs
Approaches in Integration Testing
Integration test tools

Introduction
4/20
Why Test?
 No matter how well software has been designed and coded, it will inevitably still contain
defects.
 Testing is the process of executing a program with the intent of finding faults (bugs).
 A “successful” test is one that finds errors, not one that doesn’t find errors.

Introduction-cont
5/20
Why Test?
 Testing can “prove” the presence of faults, but can not “prove” their absence
 But can increase confidence that a program “works”

Introduction-cont
What is Test?
6/20
 Unit test – test of small code unit: file, class, individual method or subroutine.
 Integration test – test of several units combined to form a (sub)system, preferably adding
one unit at a time.
 System (alpha) test – test of a system release by “independent” system testers.
 Acceptance (beta) test – test of a release by end-users or their representatives.

Introduction-cont
When to Test?
7/20
Early
 “Agile programming” developers write unit test cases before coding each unit
 Many software processes involve writing (at least) system/acceptance tests in parallel
with development
Often
 Regression testing: rerun unit, integration and system/acceptance tests
 After refactoring
 Throughout integration
 Before each release

Introduction-cont
Defining a Test?
8/20
 Goal – the aspect of the system being tested.
 Input – specify the actions and conditions that lead up to the test as well as the
input (state of the world, not just parameters) that actually constitutes the test.
 Outcome – specify how the system should respond or what it should compute,
according to its requirements .

The Concept of Integration Testing
9/20
 Testing in which software components, hardware components, or both together are
combined and tested to evaluate interactions between them.
 Integration testing usually go through several realword business scenarios to see whether
the system can successfully complete workflow tasks.
 Integration plan specifies the order of combining the modules into partial systems.
Integration is …
Making different modules work together

for each
The Concept of Integration Testing-cont
10/20
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getCharacterFreqString Frequency[]

Component / Module testing
11/20
 A unit is the smallest testable piece of software. A unit
is defined as a database trigger, stored procedure,
function, report, form, batch load program or PL/SQL
program.
 Unit testing is the testing that is performed to validate
that the unit does satisfy its functional specification
and/or that its implementation structure does match
the intended design structure.
 Module /Component consists of units integrated into a module that performs a specific
business function.

do we do integration testing?
12/20
 Unit tests only test the unit in isolation.
 Many failures result from faults in the interaction of subsystems.
 Often many Off-the-shelf components are used that cannot be unit tested.
 Without integration testing the system test will be very time consuming.
 Failures that are not discovered in integration testing will be discovered after the
system is deployed and can be very expensive.

Granularity of System Integration Testing
13/20
System Integration testing is performed at different levels of granularity
 Intra-system testing
 This form of testing constitutes low-level integration testing with the objective of combining the
modules together to build a cohesive system
 Inter-system testing
 It is a high-level testing phase which requires interfacing independently tested systems
 Pairwise testing
 In pairwise integration, only two interconnected systems in an overall system are tested at a time
 The purpose of pairwise testing is to ensure that two systems under consideration can function
together, assuming that the other systems within the overall environment behave as expected

Integration testing approaches
14/20
Common approaches to perform system integration testing
 Incremental
 Top-down
 Bottom-up
 Sandwich
 Big-bang

Drivers and Stubs
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Driver:
 A program that calls the interface procedures of the module
being tested and reports the results.
 A driver simulates a module that calls the module currently being
Tested.
Stub:
 A program that has the same interface procedures as a module
that is being called by the module being tested but is simpler.
 A stub simulates a module called by the module currently being
tested
Driver
Tested
Unit
Stub
Module under test
Procedure call
Procedure call

Example: A 3-Layer-Design(SpreadSheet)
16/20
Layer I
Layer II
Layer III
Spread
SheetView
A
Calculator
C
BinaryFile
Storage
E
XMLFile
Storage
F
Currency
DataBase
G
Currency
Converter
D
Data
Model
B
A
C
E F G
DB
Spread
SheetView
BinaryFile
Storage
Entity
Model
A
E F
Currency
DataBase
G
Currency
Converter
DB
Calculator
C
XMLFile
Storage

Big-Bang Approach
17/20
A
C
E F G
DB
Test A
Test B
Test G
Test F
Test E
Test C
Test D
Test
A, B, C, D,
E, F, G

Bottom-up Testing Strategy
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 The subsystems in the lowest layer of the call hierarchy are tested individually
 Then the next subsystems are tested that call the previously tested
subsystems
 This is repeated until all subsystems are included
 Drivers are needed.

Bottom-up Testing Strategy
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A
C
E F G
DB
A
Test
A, B, C, D,
E, F, G
E
Test E
F
Test F
B
Test B, E, F
C
Test C
D
Test D,G
G
Test G

Pros and Cons of Bottom-Up Integration
Testing
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Con:
 Tests the most important subsystem (user interface) last,
 Drivers needed.
Pro:
 No stubs needed.
 Useful for integration testing of the following systems,
• Object-oriented systems,
• Real-time systems,
• Systems with strict performance requirements.

Top-down testing strategy
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Test the top layer or the controlling subsystem first
Then combine all the subsystems that are called by the tested subsystems
and test the resulting collection of subsystems
Do this until all subsystems are incorporated into the test
Stubs are needed to do the testing.

Top-down Integration
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Test
A, B, C, D,
E, F, G
All LayersLayer I + II
Test A, B, C, D
Layer I
Test A
A
E F
B C D
G

Pros and Cons of Top-down Integration
Testing
23/20
Pro
 Test cases can be defined in terms of the functionality of the system
(functional requirements)
 No drivers needed
Cons
 Writing stubs is difficult: Stubs must allow all possible conditions to be
tested.
 Large number of stubs may be required, especially if the lowest level of the
system contains many methods.
 Some interfaces are not tested separately.

Sandwich Testing Strategy
24/20
 Combines top-down strategy with bottom-up strategy
 The system is viewed as having three layers
 A target layer in the middle
 A layer above the target
 A layer below the target
 Testing converges at the target layer.

Sandwich Testing Strategy
25/20
Test
A, B, C, D,
E, F, G
Test B, E, F
Test D,G
Test A
Test E
Test F
Test G
Test A,B,C, D
A
E F
B C D
G

Pros and Cons of Sandwich Testing
26/20
 Top and Bottom Layer Tests can be done in parallel
 Problem: Does not test the individual subsystems and their interfaces
thoroughly before integration
 Solution: Modified sandwich

Modified Sandwich Testing Strategy
27/20
Test in parallel:
 Middle layer with drivers and stubs
 Top layer with stubs
 Bottom layer with drivers
Test in parallel:
 Top layer accessing middle layer (top layer replaces drivers)
 Bottom accessed by middle layer (bottom layer replaces
stubs).

Modified Sandwich Testing
28/20
Test F
Test E
Test B
Test G
Test D
Test A
Test C
Test B, E, F
Test D,G
Test A,C
Test
A, B, C, D,
E, F, G
A
E F
B C D
G

Continuous Testing
29/20
Continuous build:
Build from day one
Test from day one
Integrate from day one
 System is always runnable
Requires integrated tool support:
Continuous build server
Automated tests with high coverage
Tool supported refactoring
Software configuration management
Issue tracking.

Continuous Testing Strategy
30/20
Spread
SheetView
BinaryFile
Storage
Data
Model
Layer I
Layer II
Layer III
A
E F
Currency
DataBase
G
Currency
Converter
DB
Calculator
C
XMLFile
Storage
Sheet View
+ Cells
+ Addition
+ File Storage

Steps in Integration Testing
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4. Test subsystem decomposition: Define test cases
that exercise all dependencies
5. Test non-functional requirements: Execute
performance tests
6. Keep records of the test cases and testing
activities.
7. Repeat steps 1 to 7 until the full system is tested.
The primary goal of integration testing is to identify
failures with the (current) component configuration.
1. Based on the integration strategy,
select a component to be tested.
Unit test all the classes in the
component.
2. Put selected component together;
do any preliminary fix-up
necessary to make the integration
test operational (drivers, stubs)
3. Test functional requirements:
Define test cases that exercise all
uses cases with the selected
component

Integration Test tool
32/20

Resource
33/20
 Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice, Chapter 7
Kshirasagar Naik, Priyadarshi Tripathy, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-471-78911-6
 Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using UML, Patterns, and Java, 3e,
Chapter11, Bernd Bruegge, Allen H. Dutoit, 2009, ISBN:0136061257
 Martin Fowler about CI
http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
 http://www.qatestingtools.com/integration_testing_tools

Thank You …
Questions….
sadegh-salehi@outlook.com
fardinkavyani@gmail.com

The major advantages of conducting SIT
35/20
 The major advantages of conducting SIT(System Integration Testing) are as follows:
 Defects are detected early
 It is easier to fix defects detected earlier
 We get earlier feedback on the health and acceptability of the individual modules and on
the overall system
 Scheduling of defect fixes is flexible, and it can overlap with development

Integration Challenges
36/20

Integration Challenges-cont
37/20
Broken Integration
You have a broken integration when:
 Source code server does not build successfully,
 Shared component works in one system, but breaks others,
 Unit tests fail,
 Code quality fails (coding conventions, quality metrics),
 Deployment fails.
The earlier you can detect problems, the easier it is to resolve them.

Integration Challenges-cont
38/20
Manual Integration
 Integration becomes expensive
 if made manual (build, test, deployment, …)
 with too less checkin’s (hours or days…)
 If integration problems and bugs are detected too late
 Reduces desire to refactor
 Long time between integration increases risk of merge
 IDE makes many cross-cutting changes easy

Different Types of Interfaces
39/20
 Three common paradigms for interfacing modules:
 Procedure call interface
 Shared memory interface
 Message passing interface
The problem arises when we “put modules together” because of interface errors.
Interface errors
Interface errors are those that are associated with structures existing outside the local
environment of a module, but which the module uses.

Different Types of Interface Errors
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 Inadequate error processing
 Additions to error processing
 Inadequate post-processing
 Inadequate interface support
 Initialization/value errors
 Validation od data constraints
 Timing/performance problems
 Coordination changes
 Construction
 Inadequate functionality
 Location of functionality
 Changes in functionality
 Added functionality
 Misuse of interface
 Misunderstanding of interface
 Data structure alteration
 Hardware/software interfaces

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