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Sort-based refactoring of crosscutting concerns to aspects

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Robin van der Rijst,

Marius Marin,

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LATE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 AOSD workshop on Linking aspect technology and evolution

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1404953.1404957

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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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Vidal SMarcos C(2012)Building an expert system to assist system refactorizationExpert Systems with Applications: An International Journal10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.08439:3(3810-3816)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.084
Vidal SMarcos CBergel AArévalo GLagadec LPlantec A(2011)Memoization aspectsProceedings of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies10.1145/2166929.2166935(1-10)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2166929.2166935
Marin MDeursen AMoonen LRijst R(2009)An integrated crosscutting concern migration strategy and its semi-automated application to JHotDrawAutomated Software Engineering10.1007/s10515-009-0051-216:2(323-356)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10515-009-0051-2

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Sort-based refactoring of crosscutting concerns to aspects
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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Vidal SMarcos C(2012)Building an expert system to assist system refactorizationExpert Systems with Applications: An International Journal10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.08439:3(3810-3816)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.084
Vidal SMarcos CBergel AArévalo GLagadec LPlantec A(2011)Memoization aspectsProceedings of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies10.1145/2166929.2166935(1-10)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2166929.2166935
Marin MDeursen AMoonen LRijst R(2009)An integrated crosscutting concern migration strategy and its semi-automated application to JHotDrawAutomated Software Engineering10.1007/s10515-009-0051-216:2(323-356)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10515-009-0051-2

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