Automated Test Generation for AspectJ Programs

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is a new paradigm that improves separation of concerns in software development. AOSD has gained popularity with the adoption of languages such as AspectJ. Automated test generation for AspectJ programs is important for reducing the manual effort in testing AspectJ programs. This position paper proposes Wrasp, a framework for automatic generation of tests for AspectJ programs. In aspect-oriented programs, we define three levels of units: advised methods (methods of base classes), advice, and intertype methods. Wrasp can generate tests to test the integration of these units. Wrasp can also generate tests to test advice as stand-alone units. The main contribution of Wrasp is automatic synthesis of appropriate wrapper classes that enable Wrasp to generate tests for AspectJ programs using the existing tools that generate tests for Java programs