A Formal Model for Partitioning based Aspect Mining

• Autor(a) principal: Cojocar, Grigoreta Sofia (Moldovan)
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Serban, Gabriela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: INFOCOMP: Jornal de Ciência da Computação
• Texto Completo: https://infocomp.dcc.ufla.br/index.php/infocomp/article/view/182
• topic: formal model; aspect mining; partitioning.

Separation of concerns is a very important principle of software engineering that, in its most general form, refers to the ability to identify, encapsulate and manipulate those parts of a software system that are relevant to a particular concept, goal, or purpose. Aspect Oriented Programming provides means to encapsulate concerns which cannot be modularized using traditional programming techniques. These concerns are called crosscutting concerns. Aspect Mining is a research direction that tries to identify crosscutting concerns in legacy systems. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new formal model for partitioning based aspect mining. Such a model was not defined in the literature, yet. The applicability of the proposed formal model is studied on three different aspect mining techniques.