Early Aspects Refactoring

On the Notion of Functional Aspects in Aspect-Oriented Refactoring

In this paper, we examine the notion of functional aspects in context of aspect-oriented refactoring. Treating aspects as functions reduces the potential interactions between aspects significantly. We propose a simple mathematical model that incorporates fundamental properties of aspects and their interactions. Using this model, we show that with regard to refactoring functional aspects are as ...

Aspect mining from a modelling perspective

Aspect mining aims at identifying, analysing, and refactoring crosscutting concerns throughout a legacy system for the purpose of improving software modularisation. This paper presents our investigation into raising the benefits of aspect mining to high-level domain-specific models. A key contribution is the capability to identify crosscutting concerns early in development, which will assist in...

An illustrative example of refactoring object-oriented source code with aspect-oriented mechanisms

This paper describes a refactoring process that transforms a Java source code base into a functionally equivalent AspectJ source code base. The process illustrates the use of a collection of refactorings for aspect-oriented source code, covering the extraction of scattered implementation elements to aspects, the internal reorganization of the extracted aspects and the extraction of commonalitie...

Ophir:A Framework for Automatic Mining and Refactoring of Aspects

Refactoring JHOTDRAW’s Undo concern to ASPECTJ

In this paper we discuss an approach to the aspect-oriented refactoring of the Undo concern in an open-source Java system. A number of challenges and considerations of the proposed solution are analyzed for providing useful feedback about how the employed aspect language could better support the refactoring to aspects. We also consider the unpluggability property of a concern as an estimate of ...