AOP and Unit testing ?

[vickyk]

Hi All,
I have a idea evolving in my mind , it is using the AOP with the Unit Testing .It can be done with the JUnit , I am in a process of evaulation/analysing this idea and would be glad to hear opinion from the community.

Regards
Vicky

[Rod Johnson]

Vicky

I've successfully used AOP in unit tests by injecting certain checks into methods via AOP. (Invariant checks etc). Is this what you had in mind?

Rgds
Rod

[vickyk]

Vicky
I've successfully used AOP in unit tests by injecting certain checks into methods via AOP. (Invariant checks etc). Is this what you had in mind?

Rod ,
I am not able to understand your statement clearly , ok let me just put a raw design down .Considering a class A as

public class A {
public String opn(String s)
{
return s.toUpperCase();
}
}

The Test case class follows :

import junit.framework.*;
public class ATest extends TestCase{
// Define All the Objects to be Tested
private A a = new A();
// Populate all the Objects needed to be Tested
protected void setUp(){
// Populate the Objects need for Test.The Population can be done using the properties
// File
}
public void testOpn(){
//
String inputData = "Vicky"; // 1) Advisor(InputDataAdvisor) should prepare the InputData Object
String expectedValue = "VICKY"; // 2) Advisor(ExpectedResultAdvisor) will prepare the ExpectedValue Object
String executionValue = a.opn(inputData);
assertEquals(expectedValue, executionValue); // 3)Advisor will check the object Contents.Its Data
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
junit.textui.TestRunner.run(ATest.class);
}
}

Now I dont want to write the ATest , rathar than I will focus on the Interceptor which basically will try to
1) Prepare the I/p data.
2) Prepare the o/p Data
3) Verify the execution result
Here I will prepare the standard Advisors and can be reused across the projects , just need to maintain the xml files .
The concept seems to make the UnitTesting simple but needs a serious thought process .What do you think?

Regards
Vicky