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Aspektorientierte Programmiertechniken im Unit-Testen

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Abstract

Der Artikel untersucht, wie Probleme, die speziell beim Unit-Testen objektorientierter Programme auftreten, mit Hilfe des Paradigmas aspektorientierte Programmierung gelöst werden können.

Die Untersuchung stellt Schritt für Schritt die einzelnen Teilprobleme vor, f"uhrt konventionelle Lösungen auf, zeigt aspektorientierte Alternativen für die gestellten Probleme und erl"autert anhand von Code-Beispielen ihre Implementierung in der Sprache AspectJ.

Die Untersuchung begleitend wird das Testframework FlexTest vorgestellt, das die praktische Umsetzbarkeit der vorgestellten Ideen demonstriert.

Abstract

The article examines whether problems that occur specifically during unit testing of object-oriented programs can be solved using the aspect-oriented programming paradigm.

It presents the various subproblems step by step, shows conventional solutions, describes aspect-oriented solutions to the problems in a general and language-independent manner, and concludes by looking at the aspect-oriented implementation in the language AspectJ.

Parallel to this, we present the test framework FlexTest, which demonstrates the practical implementability of our ideas.

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Vösgen, M., Sokenou, D. Aspektorientierte Programmiertechniken im Unit-Testen. Informatik Forsch. Entw. 20, 57–71 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-005-0192-x

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