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An exploratory study of fault-proneness in evolving aspect-oriented programs

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Fabiano Ferrari,

Rachel Burrows,

Alessandro Garcia,

Eduardo Figueiredo,

Frederico Lopes,

Nathalia Temudo,

José MaldonadoAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '10: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1

Pages 65 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/1806799.1806813

Published: 01 May 2010 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study on the fault-proneness of aspect-oriented programs. We analysed the faults collected from three evolving aspect-oriented systems, all from different application domains. The analysis develops from two different angles. Firstly, we measured the impact of the obliviousness property on the fault-proneness of the evaluated systems. The results show that 40% of reported faults were due to the lack of awareness among base code and aspects. The second analysis regarded the fault-proneness of the main aspect-oriented programming (AOP) mechanisms, namely pointcuts, advices and intertype declarations. The results indicate that these mechanisms present similar fault-proneness when we consider both the overall system and concern-specific implementations. Our findings are reinforced by means of statistical tests. In general, this result contradicts the common intuition stating that the use of pointcut languages is the main source of faults in AOP.

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