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Abstract. A computational method is proposed to measure the aberration of a lens using an extended ptychographic iterative engine. By reconstructing the entering wavefront φin and exiting wavefront φex of the lens under detection from two sets of diffraction patterns iteratively, the lens aberration can be easily extracted by subtracting the phase of φin and theoretical lens phase from the phase of φex. Since it needs no extra reference beam and high quality optics, this suggested method has advantages of simplicity in structure, high accuracy, and low requirement on working environment, and it is free of the aberration of other optical elements in the experimental system, indicating it can find lots of applications in lens evaluation.