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An approach to design test oracle for aspect oriented software systems using soft computing approach

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Software testing is one of the most important process in the software development life cycle, since it ensures the delivery of good quality software to the user. In order to make this process more efficient, automated testing is required. Automated testing offers the advantages of reduced cost and time and it is also more reliable than manual means. In automated testing, test oracle process is required to test software applications. The software applications developed using aspect oriented programming paradigm can also be tested using automated testing. Aspect oriented programming offers the advantages over object oriented programming paradigm by centralizing various cross cutting concerns in a software code, thereby improving the modularity of the code. Since the crosscutting concern is separated into a single module, maintenance of such systems becomes easy. In this paper, the artificial neural network approach is used for testing the aspect oriented programming applications by developing test oracle.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ASET, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

    Abhishek Singhal & Abhay Bansal

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Galgotias University Uttar Pradesh, Greater Noida, India

    Avadhesh Kumar

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Singhal, A., Bansal, A. & Kumar, A. An approach to design test oracle for aspect oriented software systems using soft computing approach. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 7, 1–5 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-015-0402-2

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