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A Review of Software Testing Approaches in Object-Oriented and Aspect-Oriented Systems

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Software testing is considered to be a very important phase in the development of any software. It becomes crucial to inculcate appropriate software testing techniques in every software development life cycle. Object-oriented software development has been in use for a while now. Aspect-oriented approach which is comparatively new and works on the basics of object-oriented approach. But aspect-oriented approach also aims to provide modularity, higher cohesion, and separation of concerns. In this paper, we have reviewed the various testing techniques that are developed for both object-oriented and aspect-oriented systems.

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We are thankful to the researchers of the papers we have covered, who have given their contribution to provide some valuable work in the area of object-oriented and aspect-oriented testing. We have carried out this review only because of the work done by these researchers.

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    Vasundhara Bhatia, Abhishek Singhal, Abhay Bansal & Neha Prabhakar

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Bhatia, V., Singhal, A., Bansal, A., Prabhakar, N. (2019). A Review of Software Testing Approaches in Object-Oriented and Aspect-Oriented Systems. In: Hoda, M., Chauhan, N., Quadri, S., Srivastava, P. (eds) Software Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 731. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8848-3_46

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