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APTE: automated pointcut testing for AspectJ programs

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Prasanth Anbalagan,

Tao XieAuthors Info & Claims

WTAOP '06: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Testing aspect-oriented programs

Pages 27 - 32

https://doi.org/10.1145/1146374.1146379

Published: 20 July 2006 Publication History

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Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has been proposed as a methodology that provides new modularization of software systems by allowing encapsulation of cross-cutting concerns. AspectJ, an aspect-oriented programming language, provides two major constructs: advice and pointcuts. The scope of pointcuts spans across various objects instantiated from the classes. With the increase in the number of objects, classes, and integration of source code, it is likely that a developer writes a pointcut that does not serve its intended purpose. Therefore, there is a need to test pointcuts for validating the correctness of their expressions.In this paper, we propose APTE, an automated framework that tests pointcuts in AspectJ programs with the help of AJTE, an existing unit-testing framework without weaving. Our new APTE framework identifies joinpoints that satisfy a pointcut expression and a set of boundary joinpoints, which are events that do not satisfy a pointcut expression but are close to the matched joinpoints. The boundary joinpoints are identified as those unmatched join-point candidates whose distance from the matched joinpoints are less than a predefined threshold value. A developer could inspect these matched joinpoints and boundary joinpoints for correctness of the pointcuts.

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Ye LDe Volder KD'Hondt T(2008)Tool support for understanding and diagnosing pointcut expressionsProceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development10.1145/1353482.1353500(144-155)Online publication date: 31-Mar-2008
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Anbalagan PXie T(2008)Automated Generation of Pointcut Mutants for Testing Pointcuts in AspectJ ProgramsProceedings of the 2008 19th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering10.1109/ISSRE.2008.58(239-248)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2008
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APTE: automated pointcut testing for AspectJ programs
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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WTAOP '06: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Testing aspect-oriented programs

July 2006

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ISBN:1595934154

DOI:10.1145/1146374

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Washington State University, Pullman, USA
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Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
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Bhatia VSinghal ABansal APrabhakar N(2018)A Review of Software Testing Approaches in Object-Oriented and Aspect-Oriented SystemsSoftware Engineering10.1007/978-981-10-8848-3_46(487-496)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8848-3_46
Ye LDe Volder KD'Hondt T(2008)Tool support for understanding and diagnosing pointcut expressionsProceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development10.1145/1353482.1353500(144-155)Online publication date: 31-Mar-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1353482.1353500
Anbalagan PXie T(2008)Automated Generation of Pointcut Mutants for Testing Pointcuts in AspectJ ProgramsProceedings of the 2008 19th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering10.1109/ISSRE.2008.58(239-248)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ISSRE.2008.58
Xu DHe XXu DAlexander R(2007)Generation of test requirements from aspectual use casesProceedings of the 3rd workshop on Testing aspect-oriented programs10.1145/1229384.1229388(17-22)Online publication date: 12-Mar-2007
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Anbalagan PXie T(2007)Automated Inference of Pointcuts in Aspect-Oriented RefactoringProceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering10.1109/ICSE.2007.19(127-136)Online publication date: 24-May-2007
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Anbalagan PXie T(2006)Efficient Mutant Generation for Mutation Testing of Pointcuts in Aspect-Oriented ProgramsProceedings of the Second Workshop on Mutation Analysis10.1109/MUTATION.2006.3Online publication date: 7-Nov-2006
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