TITLE:
Towards Semantic Mutation Testing of Aspect-Oriented Programs
AUTHORS:
Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani
KEYWORDS:
Aspect-Oriented Program Testing; Mutation Testing; Semantic Mutation Testing
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.6 No.10A,
October
4,
2013
ABSTRACT: Aspect-oriented programs have received
much attention from software testing researchers. Various testing techniques
and approaches have been proposed to tackle issues and challenges when testing
aspect-oriented programs including traditional mutation testing. In traditional
mutation testing of aspect-oriented programs, mutants are generated by making
small changes to the syntax of the aspect-oriented language. Recently, a new
approach known as semantic mutation testing has been proposed. This approach
mutates the semantics of the language in which the program is written. The
mutants generated misunderstandings of the language which are different classes
of faults. Aspect-oriented programming presents itself with different
properties that can be further explored with respect to semantic mutation
testing. This paper describes various possible scenarios that semantic mutation
testing strategy might have particular value in testing aspect-oriented
programs.