Component Repository with Grey Box Testing Support

Abstract

Software Components have played an important role in modern software and system development. The main contribution of software components is reuse which helps reduces development cost and time and increase productivity. In software industry, there is progressive increase in reusability of software components in order to increase productivity and to reduce time-to-market. In order to make reusable component available in future projects there must be a system to store software components so that they can be efficiently retrieved as per user requirements. Software repository is the storage medium used for storing, classifying, maintaining, browsing and retrieving components. Repository must be developed which supports essential features like efficient storage and retrieval. If a specific component is to be searched through keywords or phrase, then the potential keywords need to be stored in software repository. If in any case the keyword or the phrase framed is unable to give desired result, then the software repository is required to be enriched with more efficient retrieval technique. In this study grey testing tool has been implemented with an efficient storage structure which will provide both black box and white box testing support to the reusable components and will store all the test cases generated while performing grey testing of the component for future use.