Understanding source code evolution using abstract syntax tree matching
MSR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international workshop on Mining software repositories
An illustrative example of refactoring object-oriented source code with aspect-oriented mechanisms
Software—Practice & Experience
An empirical study on the maintenance of source code clones
Empirical Software Engineering
Model-driven detection of Design Patterns
ICSM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Aspect-based dynamic software updating: a model and its empirical evaluation
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
A taxonomy for software change impact analysis
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution
MDSE@R: model-driven security engineering at runtime
CSS'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Cyberspace Safety and Security
Adaptable, model-driven security engineering for SaaS cloud-based applications
Automated Software Engineering
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System maintenance, including omitting an existing system feature e.g. buggy or vulnerable code, or modifying existing features, e.g. replacing them, is still very challenging. To address this problem we introduce the “re-aspect” (re-engineering aspect), inspired from traditional AOP. A re-aspect captures system modification details including signatures of entities to be updated; actions to apply including remove, modify, replace, or inject new code; and code to apply. Re-aspects locate entities to update, entities that will be impacted by the given update, and finally propagate changes on the system source code. We have applied our re-aspects technique to the security re-engineering problem and evaluated it on a set of open source .NET applications to demonstrate its usefulness.