Aspect Mining Based on Object-Oriented Systems’ Dynamic Behavior Models

Aspect mining is a reverse engineering process that aims at finding crosscutting concerns in existing systems. This paper describes an aspect mining approach making use of the results of reverse engineering, statechart diagram, to aid in the understanding of an object-oriented software system’s behaviors. An aspect based on the recovered statechart diagram is defined as a set of states and an event. These states will transit to the same state after they send the event. Finally, systematic experiment is conducted in the paper in order to verify the correctness and validity of this approach.

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An Integrated Process for Aspect Mining and Refactoring

Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-763-3.ch009 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 176-194

Author(s):

Esteban S. Abait ◽

Santiago A. Vidal ◽

Claudia A. Marcos ◽

Sandra I. Casas ◽

Albert A. Osiris Sofia

Keyword(s):

Real System ◽

The Other ◽

Inference Rules ◽

Integrated Process ◽

Code Transformation ◽

Aspect Mining ◽

Crosscutting Concerns ◽

Whole Process ◽

Crosscutting Concern ◽

Object Oriented Systems

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) aims at solving the problem of encapsulating crosscutting concerns, which orthogonally crosscut the components of a system, in units called aspects. This encapsulation improves the modularization of a system and in consequence its maintenance and evolution. In this work, the authors propose a systematic process for the migration of object-oriented systems to aspect-oriented ones. This migration is achieved in two main phases: crosscutting concern identification (aspect mining) and code transformation (aspect refactoring). The aspect mining phase is based on dynamic analysis and association rules to identify potential crosscutting concerns. The aspect refactoring phase, on the other hand, uses inference rules to identify the refactoring that can be applied. The whole process is described and its application on a real system is assessed.

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ConAn: A Tool for the Identification of Crosscutting Concerns in Object Oriented Systems Based on Type Hierarchy Analysis

2009 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering ◽

10.1109/wcre.2009.38 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mario Luca Bernardi ◽

Giuseppe Antonio Di Lucca

Keyword(s):

Object Oriented ◽

Crosscutting Concerns ◽

Hierarchy Analysis ◽

Object Oriented Systems ◽

Type Hierarchy

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Finding Core Crosscutting Concerns from Object Oriented Systems Using Information Retrieval

2017 5th International Conference in Software Engineering Research and Innovation (CONISOFT) ◽

10.1109/conisoft.2017.00010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alberto S. Nunez-Varela ◽

Hector G. Perez-Gonzalez ◽

Yarin T. Flores-Puente ◽

Francisco Valdes-Souto

Keyword(s):

Information Retrieval ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Crosscutting Concerns ◽

Object Oriented Systems

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Balancing in reverse engineering and in object-oriented systems engineering to improve reusability and maintainability

Proceedings Eighteenth Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 94) ◽

10.1109/cmpsac.1994.342835 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

H. Gall ◽

R. Klosch ◽

E. Kofler ◽

L. Wurfl

Keyword(s):

Reverse Engineering ◽

Systems Engineering ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Object Oriented Systems

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Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Systems to ALF

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ◽

10.1142/s0218194021500224 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (05) ◽

pp. 745-774

Author(s):

Asad Nawaz ◽

Tauseef Rana ◽

Farooque Azam ◽

Muhammad Waseem Anwar

Keyword(s):

Reverse Engineering ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Vital Role ◽

Third Party ◽

Computer Application ◽

Model Driven ◽

And Behavior ◽

Object Oriented Systems ◽

Significant Size

In Model Driven Software Engineering (MDSE), Action Language for Foundational UML (ALF) is a new standard for specifying the structure and behavior of a system textually. To update/transform existing systems with respect to advance business needs and/or by the change in the dependent technology, this standard can play a vital role in reverse engineering a system for technology change. In this paper, using ALF, we propose a reverse engineering approach for transforming object oriented system. Our work is the first attempt to use ALF in reverse engineering. Using a case study (an ATM system) of significant size developed in C[Formula: see text], we validate the feasibility of our approach. In this paper, to support our approach by a computer application, we created a tool CPP2ALF; this tool converts the C[Formula: see text] code to srcML code by using a third party srcML-tool and then generates the ALF code by using the generated srcML code.

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