Hook-based mobile software testing by using aspect-oriented programming

The debugging for mobile software has been became supported easily and strongly by diversified technology such as performance analysis, tracing, and memory debugging. However, testers who want to find and locate knotty defects between the various components of embedded software feel that just using debugging tools is not enough. Although, using testing tools can achieve the target, but not all the testing tools can be deployed on the real device. So in this paper, we describe a new user-friendly Hook-based testing approach for embedded software. Besides introducing the concept of Hook-based testing, we show how to use AOP to implement components testing on the target easily. Meanwhile, we will provide the testing result by process tracing, and memory checking. Finally we compare with famous debugging tools to prove our approach much better.