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Back to the future: a retroactive study of aspect evolution in operating system code

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Gregor KiczalesAuthors Info & Claims

AOSD '03: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

Pages 50 - 59

https://doi.org/10.1145/643603.643609

Published: 17 March 2003 Publication History

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The FreeBSD operating system more than doubled in size between version 2 and version 4. Many changes to primary modularity are easy to spot at a high-leveL For example, new device drivers account for 38% of the growth. Not surprisingly, changes to crosscutting concerns are more difficult to track. In order to better understand how an aspect-oriented implementation would have fared during this evolution, we introduced several aspects to version 2 code, and then rolled them forward into their subsequent incarnations in versions 3 and 4 respectively. This paper describes the impact evolution had on these concerns, and provides a comparative analysis of the changes required to evolve the tangled versus aspect-oriented implementations.Our results show that for the concerns we chose, the aspect-oriented implementation facilitated evolution in four key ways: (1) changes were better localized, (2) configurability was more explicit, (3) redundancy was reduced, and (4) extensibility aligned with an aspect was more modular. Additionally, we found that the aspect-oriented implementation had negligible impact on performance.

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Back to the future: a retroactive study of aspect evolution in operating system code
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Process management
        Multiprocessing / multiprogramming / multitasking

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AOSD '03: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

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DOI:10.1145/643603

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