An aspect-based environment for COTS component testing

Abstract

Component qualification is one of the major steps in the development of component-based applications. Several techniques are used to enrich documentation by structuring and classifying components' metadata. In that line, aspect information has been used to help implement better component interfaces and to encode knowledge of components' capabilities. In this paper, we describe an environment to generate and execute aspect-dependent test cases, which is based on an aspect-based categorisation of information for testing.