Production-Testing of Embedded Systems With Aspects

Overview

A test harness plays an important role in the development of any embedded system. Although the harness can be excluded from final products, its architecture should support maintenance and reuse, especially in the context of testing product families. Aspect-orientation is a new technique for software architecture that should enable scattered and tangled code to be addressed in a modular fashion, thus facilitating maintenance and reuse. However, the design of interworking between object-oriented baseline architecture and aspects attached on top of it is an issue, which has not been solved conclusively. For industrial-scale use, guidelines on what to implement with objects and what with aspects should be derived.