Automated generation of pointcut mutants for testing pointcuts in aspectj programs

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 239-248

  Anbalagan, Prasanth ^a   Xie, Tao ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-J; ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; AUTOMATED GENERATION; CROSS-CUTTING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT-BASED; JOIN POINT; MODULARIZATION; MUTATION TESTING; POINT CUT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 67249105923     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2008.58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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