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Application of Program Slicing for Aspect Mining and Extraction – A Discussion

by Amogh Katti, Vyankatesh Bingi, Vishwanath Chavan
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 38 - Number 4
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Amogh Katti, Vyankatesh Bingi, Vishwanath Chavan
10.5120/4675-6792

Amogh Katti, Vyankatesh Bingi, Vishwanath Chavan . Application of Program Slicing for Aspect Mining and Extraction – A Discussion. International Journal of Computer Applications. 38, 4 ( January 2012), 12-15. DOI=10.5120/4675-6792

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author = { Amogh Katti, Vyankatesh Bingi, Vishwanath Chavan },
title = { Application of Program Slicing for Aspect Mining and Extraction – A Discussion },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { January 2012 },
volume = { 38 },
number = { 4 },
month = { January },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 12-15 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume38/number4/4675-6792/ },
doi = { 10.5120/4675-6792 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

Aspect Orientation removed the code scattering and tangling drawback of Object Orientation by encapsulating the cross cutting concerns into their own modules called Aspects. It is gaining popularity these days as lot of languages, frameworks, programming and modeling tools already support aspects and developers have started to embrace these. But there exists lot of legacy object oriented code that needs to be moved to aspects as this makes cross cutting concerns easy to change (localized changes would be enough), test, extend, more comprehensible, etc. Converting it manually is tedious and there exist different techniques that semi automate the process making the maintenance engineer’s job easier. Another approach to the automation process using program slicing is also possible. In this paper, we discuss aspect mining and extraction from program slicing point of view.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Aspect Mining using Program Slicing Refactoring to Aspects Program Slicing for Refactoring Untangling