Using Pointcut Delta Analysis to Support Evolution of Aspect-Oriented Software

Authors:
Maximilian Stoerzer;Juergen Graf
Affiliations:
University of Passau;University of Passau
Venue:
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Aspect oriented programming has been proposed as a way to improve modularity of software systems by allowing encapsulation of cross-cutting concerns. To do so, aspects specify where new functionality should apply using pointcuts. Unfortunately expressions written using todays mainstream pointcut languages are fragile, as non-local changes may easily change pointcut semantics. This is a major obstacle for evolution of aspect oriented software. In this paper we introduce a delta analysis to lighten these problems.