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Perspectives on automated testing of aspect-oriented programs

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WTAOP '07: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Testing aspect-oriented programs

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1229384.1229386

Published: 12 March 2007 Publication History

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Aspect-oriented software development is gaining popularity with the adoption of aspect-oriented languages in writing programs. To reduce the manual effort in assuring the quality of aspect-oriented programs, we have developed a set of techniques and tools for automated testing of aspect-oriented programs. This position paper presents our perspectives on automated testing techniques from three dimensions: testing aspectual behavior or aspectual composition, unit tests or integration tests, and test-input generation or test oracles. We illustrate automated testing techniques primarily through the last dimension in the perspectives. By classifying these automated testing techniques in the perspectives, we provide better understanding of these techniques and identify future directions for automated testing of aspect-oriented programs. This position paper also presents a couple of new techniques that we propose based on the perspectives.

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Perspectives on automated testing of aspect-oriented programs
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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WTAOP '07: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Testing aspect-oriented programs

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DOI:10.1145/1229384

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Ferrari FP. Cafeo BLevin TS. Lacerda JL. Lemos OC. Maldonado JMasiero P(2015)Testing of aspect-oriented programs: difficulties and lessons learned based on theoretical and practical experienceJournal of the Brazilian Computer Society10.1186/s13173-015-0040-121:1Online publication date: 20-Nov-2015
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Duclos ELe Digabel SGueheneuc YAdams B(2013)ACREProceedings of the 2013 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering10.1109/CSMR.2013.22(121-130)Online publication date: 5-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CSMR.2013.22
Parizi RGhani AAbdullah RAtan R(2011)Empirical evaluation of the fault detection effectiveness and test effort efficiency of the automated AOP testing approachesInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2011.05.00453:10(1062-1083)Online publication date: Oct-2011
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2011.05.004

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