Automated test generation for AspectJ programs

Aspect-oriented software development is a new paradigm that im-proves separation of concerns in software development, and has gained popularity with the adoption of languages such as AspectJ. Automated test generation for AspectJ programs is important for reducing manual effort during testing AspectJ programs. This po-sition paper proposes Wrasp, a framework for automatically gen-erating tests for AspectJ programs. To generate integration tests for bases classes and aspects, Wrasp creates a wrapper class for each base class under test and feeds the wrapper class to the exist-ing test generation tools adapted for generating integration tests to-wards three levels of units in AspectJ programs: advised methods, advice, and intertype methods. To generate unit tests for advice, Wrasp treats an aspect class as the class under test and generates unit tests for advice in the aspect class. 1