Automatic validation of deployed J2EE components using aspects

Author

Grundy, John ; Ding, Guoliang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Auckland Univ., New Zealand

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

56

Abstract

Validating that software components meet their requirements under a particular deployment scenario is very challenging. We describe a new approach that uses component aspects, describing functional and nonfunctional cross-cutting concerns impacting components, to perform automated deployed component validation. Aspect information associated with J2EE component implementations is inspected after component deployment by validation agents. These agents run automated tests to determine if the deployed components meet their aspect-described requirements. We describe the way component aspects are encoded, the automated agent-based testing process we employ, and our validation agent architecture and implementation.

Keywords

formal specification; program testing; aspect described requirements; automated agent-based testing process; automated deployed component validation; automatic validation; component aspects; cross-cutting concerns; deployed J2EE components; software components validation; validation agent architecture; validation agents; Application software; Automatic testing; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Databases; Java; Middleware; Search engines; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automated Software Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. ASE 2002. 17th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1938-4300

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1736-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASE.2002.1114993

Filename

1114993