Structural integration testing of aspect-oriented programs: a pointcut-based approach for AspectJ / Teste estrutural de integração de programas orientados a aspectos: uma abordagem baseada em conjuntos de junção para AspectJ

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a promising development technique that supports separation of crosscutting concerns. In AOP, advice is applied to join points in the system through a special construct called pointcut. This mechanism supports the modularization of crosscutting behavior; however, since the added interactions are not explicit in the source code, it is hard to ensure their correctness. To tackle this problem, this thesis proposes a rigorous structural testing approach for aspect-oriented programs. A control and data flow model based on Java bytecode the PointCut-based Def-Use Graph (PCDU) that models execution regions of a program affected by a pointcut is proposed. On top of this model three testing criteria are defined: all-pointcut-based-advice-nodes, all-pointcut-based-advice-edges, and all-pointcut-based-advice-uses, that require exercising all statements, branches and def-use pairs of each advice at the context of each affected join point. To automate the use of the proposed model and criteria, a tool named JaBUTi/PC-AJ is implemented. Moreover, to validate the proposed approach, both theoretical and experimental studies are presented. These studies provide evidence of the applicability and efficacy of the proposed criteria

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java java aspect-oriented programming programação orientada a aspectos teste de software software testing structural testing teste de programas orientados a aspectos aspectj teste de integração aspectj integration testing teste estrutural testing of aspect-oriented programs

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