Enhancing UML state machines with aspects
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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AOSD is the premier conference on software modularity, with an emphasis on novel notions of modularity that crosscut traditional abstraction boundaries. The AOSD research track brings together leading researchers and practitioners working in the fields of software engineering, programming languages, and software systems. This volume consists of the papers presented in that research track at the 6th edition of AOSD, in 2007.A total of 107 papers were submitted, and 361 in-depth technical reviews were produced to rank the papers according to quality; many of the strong contenders received five reviews or more. Authors had an opportunity to respond to reviews, and this helped clear up some misunderstandings. The research program committee then met in Oxford to make the final selection of 19 papers. The program reflects how AOSD brings together different communities around the theme of crosscutting concerns:Several papers on applications demonstrate both the need for aspect-orientation, and how current technologies meet that need.A continuing theme at AOSD is the use of aspects at the design stage, along with tools that assist with a transition to code. There is also a session on tools more generally, for instance to bring out crosscutting concerns in the presentation of code.AOSD always has strong input from the programming language community and this year is no exception. A new perspective for 2007 is provided by several papers on programming language semantics, which present mathematical theories for reasoning about aspects (a long-standing open issue), and to guide the design of new aspect-oriented programming languages.Finally, we have a strong session on finding crosscutting concerns in existing code.