The crosscutting impact of the AOSD Brazilian research community

  • Authors:

  • Uirá Kulesza;SéRgio Soares;Christina Chavez;Fernando Castor;Paulo Borba;Carlos Lucena;Paulo Masiero;Claudio Sant'Anna;Fabiano Ferrari;Vander Alves;Roberta Coelho;Eduardo Figueiredo;Paulo F. Pires;FláVia Delicato;Eduardo Piveta;Carla Silva;Valter Camargo;Rosana Braga;Julio Leite;OtáVio Lemos;Nabor MendonçA;Thais Batista;Rodrigo BonifáCio;NéLio Cacho;Lyrene Silva;Arndt Von Staa;FáBio Silveira;Marco TúLio Valente;Fernanda Alencar;Jaelson Castro;Ricardo Ramos;Rosangela Penteado;CecíLia Rubira

  • Affiliations:

  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo - São Carlos, Brazil;Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil;Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil;Universidade de Brasília, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo - São Carlos, Brazil;Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Universidade Federal de São Paulo - São José dos Campos, Brazil;Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil;Universidade de Brasília, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil;Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Universidade Federal de São Paulo - São José dos Campos, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Brazil;Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil;Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Background: Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a paradigm that promotes advanced separation of concerns and modularity throughout the software development lifecycle, with a distinctive emphasis on modular structures that cut across traditional abstraction boundaries. In the last 15 years, research on AOSD has boosted around the world. The AOSD-BR research community (AOSD-BR stands for AOSD in Brazil) emerged in the last decade, and has provided different contributions in a variety of topics. However, despite some evidence in terms of the number and quality of its outcomes, there is no organized characterization of the AOSD-BR community that positions it against the international AOSD Research community and the Software Engineering Research community in Brazil. Aims: In this paper, our main goal is to characterize the AOSD-BR community with respect to the research developed in the last decade, confronting it with the AOSD international community and the Brazilian Software Engineering community. Method: Data collection, validation and analysis were performed in collaboration with several researchers of the AOSD-BR community. The characterization was presented from three different perspectives: (i) a historical timeline of events and main milestones achieved by the community; (ii) an overview of the research developed by the community, in terms of key challenges, open issues and related work; and (iii) an analysis on the impact of the AOSD-BR community outcomes in terms of well-known indicators, such as number of papers and number of citations. Results: Our analysis showed that the AOSD-BR community has impacted both the international AOSD Research community and the Software Engineering Research community in Brazil.