Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 11-2015
Abstract
Pointcut fragility is a well-documented problem in Aspect-Oriented Programming; changes to the base code can lead to join points incorrectly falling in or out of the scope of pointcuts. Deciding which pointcuts have broken due to base-code changes is daunting, especially in large and complex systems. We present an automated approach that recommends pointcuts that are likely to require modification due to a certain base-code change and ones that do not. Our hypothesis is that join points selected by a pointcut exhibit common structural characteristics. Patterns describing such commonalities recommend pointcuts that have potentially broken to the developer. The approach is implemented as an extension to the popular Mylyn Eclipse IDE plug-in, which maintains focused contexts of entities relevant to the task at hand using a Degree of Interest (DOI) model.
Comments
In International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE ’15, pages 641–646, New York, NY, USA, November 2015. IEEE/ACM. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ase.2015.80