Mutant Generation for Aspect Oriented Programs

Testing of aspect oriented programs is a new programming paradigm. Many researchers had contributedtheir research in the field of testing AOP. Mutation testing is an emerging area of research in testing of aspectoriented programming. The effectiveness of mutation testing depends on finding fault types and designing ofmutation operators on the basis of faults identified. Therefore the effectiveness of testing depends upon the qualityof these mutation operators. We already have the mutation operators for procedural and object oriented languages, but for aspect oriented language only a few researchers have contributed. In this paper we will study in detail aboutthe fault types and related mutation operators for AspectJ language. This paper also proposes the implementationframework to implement these mutation operators automatically