Abstract: “Component based software engineering (CBSE) is gaining substantial interest in the software engineering community. A lot of research efforts have been devoted to the reliability, fault tolerance and complexity of components in CBSE. Testing the software component is an important approach which guarantees and enhances the reliability of components and as the reliability factor is directly related to the complexity of the components in CBSE. So automatically the complexity of the software will get improved. Merely selection of less complex and reliable components is not sufficient but we have to select the optimal components for the software system including the factor of fault tolerance. This paper proposes a testing strategy for finding the complexity of components and also a modified approach of fault injection model is proposed.”

Keywords: component testing;fault injection model;testing strategy