Tool-supported Refactoring of Aspect-oriented Programs: Why Aspect-oriented Programming Prevents Developers from Using Their Favorite Refactoring Tools, and How These Tools Can Be Made Aspect-aware? - Couverture souple

Wloka, Jan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3836489996 ISBN 13 : 9783836489997

Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) offers a new concept for improving the modularity of crosscutting concerns. The advanced composition mechanisms introduced for realizing this concept cause serious software evolution problems and prevent in particular tool-supported refactoring of aspect-oriented programs. This dissertation presents an approach to refactoring that uses change impact analysis techniques to verify the validity of behavioral compositions in aspect-oriented programs. It shows how the refactoring process can be extended to detect invalidated compositions and to adjust their specifications. In particular, the dissertation discusses and classifies general attributes of existing approaches for composing program behavior in AOP and illustrates in which way they cause evolution-related problems. It presents a model for representing the meta-level information used, which enables the detection of invalidated compositions. The presented prototype demonstrates how the proposed approach can be integrated in mainstream refactoring tools, showing different ways to assist developers in detecting and adjusting invalidated compositions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3836489996
• ISBN 13: 9783836489997
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
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• Personne responsable: non disponible