Sort-based Refactoring of Crosscutting Concerns to Aspects

Title

Sort-based Refactoring of Crosscutting Concerns to Aspects

 Author

Van der Rijst, R.
Marin, M.
Van Deursen, A.

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Software Computer Technology

 Date

2008-12-31

 Abstract

Preprint of paper published in: LATE 2008 - Proceedings of the 2008 AOSD Workshop on Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution, 31 March-4 April 2008; doi:10.1145/1404953.1404957 Crosscutting concerns in object-oriented programming hinder evolution because of their symptoms: tangling and scattering. To benefit from the modularisation capabilities for crosscutting concerns provided by aspect-oriented programming (which prevent tangling and scattering) aspect-introducing refactoring can be used. The first step in aspect-introducing refactoring is identifying and documenting crosscutting concerns in existing code. The second step is refactoring the identified concerns to aspects. This paper describes a tool called SAIR that can perform the second step of the aspect-introducing refactoring. For the first step, documenting, SAIR uses crosscutting concern sorts. Of the various possible sorts, SAIR currently supports the two most commonly encountered ones: Role Superimposition and Consistent Behavior. The refactoring towards aspects of concerns of these sorts is illustrated on an open source application (JHotDraw).

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 Publisher

Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group

 ISSN

1872-5392

 Source

Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2008-010

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

report

 Rights

(c) 2008 The Author(s)
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