Special Issue on best papers from ICSM 04

Mark Harman; Bogdan Korel; Panos Linos

doi:10.1109/TSE.2005.113

Special Issue on best papers from ICSM 04

Mark Harman, Bogdan Korel, Panos Linos

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In systems developed without aspect-oriented programming, code implementing a crosscutting concern may be spread over many different parts of a system. Identifying such code automatically could be of great help during maintenance of the system. First of all, it allows a developer to more easily find the places in the code that must be changed when the concern changes and, thus, makes such changes less time consuming and less prone to errors. Second, it allows the code to be refactored to an aspect-oriented solution, thereby improving its modularity. In this paper, we evaluate the suitability of clone detection as a technique for the identification of crosscutting concerns. To that end, we manually identify five specific crosscutting concerns in an industrial C system and analyze to what extent clone detection is capable of finding them. We consider our results as a stepping stone toward an automated "aspect miner” based on clone detection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	801-803
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Volume	31
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2005.113
Publication status	Published - Oct 2005

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