Documenting Typical Crosscutting Concerns

Title

Documenting Typical Crosscutting Concerns

 Author

Marin, M.
Moonen, L.
Van Deursen, A.

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Software Technology

 Date

2007-10-28

 Abstract

Our analysis of crosscutting concerns in real-life software systems (totaling over 500,000 LOC) and in aspect-oriented literature, indicated a number of properties that allow for their decomposition in primitive building blocks which are atomic crosscutting concerns. We identify these blocks as crosscutting concern sorts, and we use them to describe the crosscutting structure of many (well-known) designs and common mechanisms in software systems. In this paper, we formalize the notion of crosscutting concern sorts by means of relational queries over (object oriented) source models. Based on these queries, we present a concern management tool called SOQUET, which can be used to document the occurrences of crosscutting concerns in object-oriented systems. We assess the sorts-based approach by using the tool to cover various crosscutting concerns in two open-source systems: JHotDraw and Java PetStore. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Conference on Reverse Engineering

 To reference this document use:

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5a3038d2-3b3b-499b-8b60-339757b3f5c7

 Publisher

Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group

 ISSN

1872-5392

 Source

Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2007-010

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

report

 Rights

(c) 2007 The authors. Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology.
Files
PDF TUD-SERG-2007-010.pdf 387.66 KB
Close viewer