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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.06302.5
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-8847
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Breu, Silvia ; Zimmermann, Thomas ; Lindig, Christian

HAM: Cross-cutting Concerns in Eclipse

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Abstract

As programs evolve, newly added functionality sometimes does no
longer align with the original design, ending up scattered across the
software system. Aspect mining tries to identify such cross-cutting
concerns in a program to support maintenance, or as a first step
towards an aspect-oriented program. Previous approaches to aspect
mining applied static or dynamic program analysis techniques to a
single version of a system.We leverage all versions from a system's
CVS history to mine aspect candidates with our Eclipse plug-in
HAM: when a single CVS commit adds calls to the same (small)
set of methods in many unrelated locations, these method calls are
likely to be cross-cutting. HAM employs formal concept analysis to
identify aspect candidates. Analysing one commit at a time makes
the approach scale to industrial-sized programs. In an evaluation we
mined cross-cutting concerns from Eclipse 3.2M3 and found that
up to 90% of the top-10 aspect candidates are truly cross-cutting
concerns.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{breu_et_al:DagSemProc.06302.5,
  author =	{Breu, Silvia and Zimmermann, Thomas and Lindig, Christian},
  title =	{{HAM: Cross-cutting Concerns in Eclipse}},
  booktitle =	{Aspects For Legacy Applications},
  pages =	{1--4},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{6302},
  editor =	{Siobh\'{a}n Clarke and Leon Moonen and Ganesan Ramalingam},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/884},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-8847},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.06302.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Aspect Mining, Aspect-Oriented Programming, CVS, Eclipse, Formal Concept Analysis, Java, Mining Version Archives}
}

Keywords: Aspect Mining, Aspect-Oriented Programming, CVS, Eclipse, Formal Concept Analysis, Java, Mining Version Archives
Collection: 06302 - Aspects For Legacy Applications
Issue Date: 2007
Date of publication: 08.02.2007

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