--- An Analysis on Software Testability and Security in Context of Object and Aspect Oriented Software Development
Author(s): SINGH, Pradeep Kumar; SANGWAN, Om Prakash; PRATAP, Amrendra; SINGH, Amar Pal
Author(s) keywords: AOP Security, Aspect Oriented Metrics, cohesion, Coupling and Size, Factors of Software Testability, Object Oriented Metric, Separation of Concerns (SoC), software security, software testability, software testing
Reference keywords: software security, software testability
Abstract:
Testability is a property of program which introduces with the purpose of forecasting efforts need to test the programs. Software quality is the most important factor in the development of software, which depend upon many quality attributes. The absence of testability is responsible for higher maintenance and testing effort. This paper presents a literature review on software testability and its importance. Object-Oriented and Aspect-Oriented metrics are considered for analysis. These metrics are closely related to the Software quality factors i.e. Controllability, Observability, Built in Test Capability, Understandability and Complexity, all these factors are independent to each other. We have identified factors which affect software testability in general as well specific to Aspect Oriented Systems. In addition to testability, security features in term of aspect oriented programming have been explored.
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Article Title: An Analysis on Software Testability and Security in Context of Object and Aspect Oriented Software Development
Author(s): SINGH, Pradeep Kumar; SANGWAN, Om Prakash; PRATAP, Amrendra; SINGH, Amar Pal
Date of Publication: 2014-06-28
Publication: International Journal of Information Security and Cybercrime
ISSN: 2285-9225 e-ISSN: 2286-0096
Digital Object Identifier: 10.19107/IJISC.2014.01.02
Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1, Year 2014
Section: Advances in Information Security Research
Page Range: 17-28 (12 pages)
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