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A catalogue of stub and driver patterns to support integration testing of aspect-oriented programs

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Bruno Barbieri De Pontes Cafeo,

Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga,

Paulo Cesar MasieroAuthors Info & Claims

SugarLoafPLoP '10: Proceedings of the 8th Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

Article No.: 8, Pages 1 - 14

https://doi.org/10.1145/2581507.2581515

Published: 23 September 2010 Publication History

Abstract

This work presents a pattern collection aiming at supporting the integration testing design of aspect-oriented software. Such patterns provide a reduction in the effort of implementing stubs and drivers required for the integration testing. Furthermore, guidelines to implement these software artifacts are proposed to support the testing of aspect-oriented programs.

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A catalogue of stub and driver patterns to support integration testing of aspect-oriented programs
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns

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SugarLoafPLoP '10: Proceedings of the 8th Latin American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

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Luengruengroj PSuwannasart T(2018)Stubs and Drivers Generator for Object-Oriented Program Testing Using Sequence and Class Diagrams2018 5th International Conference on Computational Science/ Intelligence and Applied Informatics (CSII)10.1109/CSII.2018.00013(32-36)Online publication date: Jul-2018
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