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Dynamic aspect mining

Dynamic aspect mining

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Legacy systems often contain several crosscutting concerns that could potentially benefit from an aspect-oriented programming implementation. In this paper, we focus on the problem of aspect identification in existing code. The main idea is that use-cases can be defined in order to separate the base logics from the crosscutting concerns to be aspectised. The relationship between the execution traces associated with the use-cases and the executed computational units (class methods) is analysed through concept analysis. The results obtained on some case studies are discussed in the paper.

Inspec keywords: data mining; software engineering; object-oriented programming

Other keywords: executed computational unit; legacy systems; aspect identification; dynamic aspect mining; software development; aspect-oriented programming

Subjects: Object-oriented programming; Knowledge engineering techniques; Software engineering techniques

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