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Role-based refactoring of crosscutting concerns

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Gail C. Murphy,

Gregor KiczalesAuthors Info & Claims

AOSD '05: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

Pages 135 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1145/1052898.1052910

Published: 14 March 2005 Publication History

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Improving the structure of code can help developers work with a software system more efficiently and more consistently. To aid developers in re-structuring the implementation of crosscutting concerns using aspect-oriented programming, we introduce a role-based refactoring approach and tool. Crosscutting concerns (CCCs) are described in terms of abstract roles, and instructions for refactoring crosscutting concerns are written in terms of those roles. To apply a refactoring, a developer maps a subset of the roles to concrete program elements; a tool can then help complete the mapping of roles to the existing program. Refactoring instructors are then applied to manipulate and modularize the concrete elements corresponding to the crosscutting concern. Evaluation of the prototype tool on a graphical editing framework suggests that the approach helps planning and executing complex CCC refactorings.

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Role-based refactoring of crosscutting concerns
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Classes and objects
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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DOI:10.1145/1052898

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