Automating the mutation testing of aspect-oriented Java programs
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Automation of Software Test
On generating mutants for AspectJ programs
Information and Software Technology
Testing aspect-oriented programs with finite state machines
Software Testing, Verification & Reliability
A critical review of various testing techniques in aspect-oriented software systems
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Aspect-oriented programming introduces new challenges for software testing. Inparticular the pointcut descriptor (PCD) requires particular attention fromtesters. The PCD describes the set of joinpoints where the advices are woven.In this paper we present a tool, AjMutator, for the mutation analysis of PCDs.AjMutator implements several mutation operators that introduce faults in thePCDs to generate a set of mutants. AjMutator classifies the mutants accordingto the set of joinpoints they match compared to the set of joinpoints matchedby the initial PCD. An interesting result is that this automaticclassification can identify equivalent mutants for a particular class of PCDs.AjMutator can also run a set of test cases on the mutants to give a mutationscore. We have applied AjMutator on two systems to show that this tool issuitable for the mutation analysis of PCDs on large AspectJ systems.