A dataflow-based pointcut is proposed for aspect-oriented programming (AOP) languages. The pointcut specifies where aspects should be applied based on the origins of values. It is designed to be compatible with the other kinds of pointcuts in existing AOP languages. Primary application fields of the pointcut are the aspects in which flow of information is important, such as security. This paper...

Aspect-oriented languages offer new modularization concepts and composition approaches to provide more flexible solutions for the separation and integration of concerns. There are significant differences among aspect-oriented languages, due to the specific language constructs that they adopt. In this paper, we propose a common model, called Composition Graph, to represent different aspect-orien...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) offers new insights and tools for the modular development of systems with cross-cutting features. Current tool support for AOSD is provided mainly in the form of code-level constructs. This paper presents a way to express cross-cutting features as logical invariants and to use generative techniques to produce the kind of code that is usually written m...

This paper addresses the aspect-oriented specification of systems by considering different aspects of a simple stream example. It is shown how these aspects can be expressed in different formal languages if required. By using an underlying common semantics to the different languages, it is then possible to compose the aspects in order to perform analysis of either the interaction of aspects (c....

Traditionally in aspect-oriented languages, pointcut designators select joinpoints of a program based on lexical information such as explicit names of program elements. However, this reduces the adaptability of software, since it involves too much information that is hard-coded, and often implementationspecific. We claim that this problem can be reduced by referring to program units through the...

This paper presents a component based framework for developing enterprise applications with support to dynamic unanticipated evolution. The framework is based on the COMPOR Component Model Specification, which provides mechanisms to manage unpredicted evolution even at runtime. We describe the framework design that is based on design patterns and aspect-oriented concepts. Finally, we present a ...

Research in aspect-oriented software testing has resulted in many approaches as reported in literature. A few papers have devoted to literature survey in this field of research. However, the survey only focuses on certain selected topic and particular approaches rather than providing a comprehensive set of references that cover most of the work related to aspect-oriented software testing as a w...

Aspect-oriented programming languages are becoming commonplace, and programmers are accumulating experience in building and maintaining aspect-oriented systems. This paper addresses how the use of these languages affects program design: how aspect-oriented languages change the design space, which designs should be emulated and which avoided, and the strengths and weaknesses of particular kinds ...

Aspect Oriented Software Development has been proposed as a means to improve modularization of software in the presence of crosscutting concerns. Compared to object-oriented or procedural approaches, Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) has not yet been applied in many industrial applications. In this thesis we investigate the application of AOP within an industrial context and propose a novel sol...

This paper discusses Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) as an efficient way to handle security concerns in Web services. Without AOP, the necessary security code would be mixed with the business logic that a Web service implements. This renders the maintenance of both code and business logic tedious and prone to errors. AOP allows confining codes of non-functional concerns like security and self...