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FlexTest: An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Unit Testing

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Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality (QoSA 2005, SOQUA 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 3712))

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This paper examines whether test problems that occur speci- fically during unit testing of object-oriented programs can be solved using the aspect-oriented programming paradigm.

It presents the various problems in unit testing, shows conventional solutions and describes aspect-oriented solutions to the problems. The aspect-oriented solutions are supported by the unit test framework FlexTest of which the paper gives an overview.

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  1. Fakultät IV – Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik, Fachgebiet Softwaretechnik, Sekr. FR 5-6, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587, Berlin

    Dehla Sokenou & Matthias Vösgen

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  1. Chair for Software Design and Quality, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Ralf Reussner

  2. Dept. of Applied Information Processing, University of Ulm, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Johannes Mayer

  3. Computer Science, Tufts University, 161 College Avenue, Medford, 02155, Boston, MA, USA

    Judith A. Stafford

  4. Dept. of Software Engineering and Business Information Systems, Augsburg University, Universitätsstraße 16, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

    Sven Overhage

  5. FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Steffen Becker

  6. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Milwaukee School of Engineering, 53202, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Patrick J. Schroeder

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Sokenou, D., Vösgen, M. (2005). FlexTest: An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Unit Testing. In: Reussner, R., Mayer, J., Stafford, J.A., Overhage, S., Becker, S., Schroeder, P.J. (eds) Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality. QoSA SOQUA 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558569_19

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