Refactoring of Crosscutting Concerns with Metaphor-Based Heuristics Export

@article{citeulike:5234717, abstract = {It has been advocated that Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is an effective technique to improve software maintainability through explicit support for modularising crosscutting concerns. However, in order to take the advantages of AOP, there is a need for supporting the systematic refactoring of crosscutting concerns to aspects. Existing techniques for aspect-oriented refactoring are too fine-grained and do not take the concern structure into consideration. This paper presents two categories towards a metaphor-based classification of crosscutting concerns driven by their manifested shapes through a system's modular structure. The proposed categories provide an intuitive and fundamental terminology for detecting concern-oriented design flaws and identifying refactorings in terms of recurring crosscutting structures. On top of this classification, we define a suite of metaphor-based refactorings to guide the ''aspectisation'' of each concern category. We evaluate our technique by classifying concerns of 23 design patterns and by proposing refactorings to aspectise them according to observations made in previous empirical studies. Based on our experience, we also determine a catalogue of potential additional categories and heuristics for refactoring of crosscutting concerns.}, address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands}, author = {da Silva, Bruno C. and Figueiredo, Eduardo and Garcia, Alessandro and Nunes, Daltro}, citeulike-article-id = {5234717}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1519560.1519977}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.064}, doi = {10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.064}, issn = {1571-0661}, journal = {Electron. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.}, pages = {105--125}, posted-at = {2009-07-23 05:44:00}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.}, title = {Refactoring of Crosscutting Concerns with Metaphor-Based Heuristics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.064}, volume = {233}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5234717 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5234717 N2 - It has been advocated that Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is an effective technique to improve software maintainability through explicit support for modularising crosscutting concerns. However, in order to take the advantages of AOP, there is a need for supporting the systematic refactoring of crosscutting concerns to aspects. Existing techniques for aspect-oriented refactoring are too fine-grained and do not take the concern structure into consideration. This paper presents two categories towards a metaphor-based classification of crosscutting concerns driven by their manifested shapes through a system's modular structure. The proposed categories provide an intuitive and fundamental terminology for detecting concern-oriented design flaws and identifying refactorings in terms of recurring crosscutting structures. On top of this classification, we define a suite of metaphor-based refactorings to guide the ''aspectisation'' of each concern category. We evaluate our technique by classifying concerns of 23 design patterns and by proposing refactorings to aspectise them according to observations made in previous empirical studies. Based on our experience, we also determine a catalogue of potential additional categories and heuristics for refactoring of crosscutting concerns. JF - Electron. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. SN - 1571-0661 AD - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands EP - 125 TI - Refactoring of Crosscutting Concerns with Metaphor-Based Heuristics PB - Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. VL - 233 SP - 105 AU - da Silva, Bruno AU - Figueiredo, Eduardo AU - Garcia, Alessandro AU - Nunes, Daltro PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.064 ER -