The AOSD Research Community in Brazil and Its Crosscutting Impact

Chávez, Christina; Kulesza, Uir'; Soares, Sérgio; Borba, Paulo; Lucena, Carlos José Pereira de; Masiero, Paulo César; Sant’Anna, Cláudio; Piveta, Eduardo Kessler; Ferrari, Fabiano Cutigi; Castor, Fernando; Coelho, Roberta; Silva, Lyrene Fernandes da; Alves, Vander; Mendonça, Nabor C.; Figueiredo, Eduardo; Camargo, Valter Vieira de; Silva, Carla; Pires, Paulo F.; Batista, Thaís; Cacho, Nélio; Staa, Arndt von; Leite, Julio César Sampaio do Prado; Silveira, Fábio Fagundes; Lemos, Otávio Augusto Lazzarini; Penteado, Rosângela Aparecida Dellosso; Delicato, Flávia C.; Braga, Rosana Teresinha Vaccare; Valente, Marco; Ramos, Ricardo; ́cio, Rodrigo Bonif; Alencar, Fernanda M. R.; Castro, Jaelson

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“…The list on the left hand-side in Table 4 shows the authors with the most number of co-authors. In this list we can find some authors with a relatively low number of co-authored articles (e.g., Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite and Uirá Kulesza), because many of their articles include lists of 8, 10, 11 and even 32 co-authors (Chavez et al 2011). The right hand-side list in Table 4 shows the DBLP-SWEng authors that have co-authored more articles.…”

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Authorship trends in software engineering

Fernandes

2014

Scientometrics

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This paper aims to examine authorship trends in software engineering, especially those related to the number of authors, of scientific publications. We collected and mined around 70.000 entries from DBLP for 122 conferences and journals, for the period 1971-2012, in order to process several bibliometric indicators. We provide evidence that the number of authors of articles in software engineering is increasing on average around ?0.40 authors/decade. The results also indicate that until 1980, the majority of the articles have a sole author, while nowadays articles with 3 or 4 authors represent almost half of the total.

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Authorship trends in software engineering

Fernandes

2014

Scientometrics

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“…In this paper, our main goal is to characterize the AOSD-BR community with respect to the research developed in the last decade, confronting it with the AOSD international community and the Brazilian Software Engineering community. This work extends the scope, refines and organizes our previous characterization (Chavez et al, 2011), providing improved analysis of the research outcomes and lessons learned from the AOSD-BR research community.…”

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“…Our previous work (Chavez et al, 2011) 2 provided a preliminary characterization of the research developed by the AOSD-BR community in the last decade and presented initial evidence about the impact of the AOSD-BR research outcomes. However, there was no comprehensive analysis of such outcomes against those of related counterparts, for instance, the international AOSD research community and the Brazilian SE research community.…”

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The crosscutting impact of the AOSD Brazilian research community

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Journal of Systems and Software

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Background: Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a paradigm that promotes advanced separation of concerns and modularity throughout the software development lifecycle, with a distinctive emphasis on modular structures that cut across traditional abstraction boundaries. In the last 15 years, research on AOSD has boosted around the world. The AOSD-BR research community (AOSD-BR stands for AOSD in Brazil) emerged in the last decade, and has provided different contributions in a variety of topics. However, despite some evidence in terms of the number and quality of its outcomes, there is no organized characterization of the AOSD-BR community that positions it against the international AOSD Research community and the Software Engineering Research community in Brazil. Aims: In this paper, our main goal is to characterize the AOSD-BR community with respect to the research developed in the last decade, confronting it with the AOSD international community and the Brazilian Software Engineering community. Method: Data collection, validation and analysis were performed in collaboration with several researchers of the AOSD-BR community. The characterization was presented from three different perspectives: (i) a historical timeline of events and main milestones achieved by the community; (ii) an overview of the research developed by the community, in terms of key challenges, open issues and related work; and (iii) an analysis on the impact of the AOSD-BR community outcomes in terms of well-known indicators, such as number of papers and number of citations. Results: Our analysis showed that the AOSD-BR community has impacted both the international AOSD Research community and the Software Engineering Research community in Brazil.

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“…SoC is a fundamental principle that addresses the limitations of human cognition for dealing with complexity (Chavez et al 2011). It advocates that in order to master complexity, one has to deal with one important issue at a time; it does not mean completely ignoring the other issues, but temporarily forgetting them to the extent that they are irrelevant for the current topic (Dijkstra 1976).…”

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An empirical study on the impact of AspectJ on software evolvability

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2017

Empir Software Eng

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Since its inception in 1996, aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has been believed to reduce the effort required to maintain software systems by replacing cross-cutting code with aspects. However, little convincing empirical evidence exists to support this claim, while several studies suggest that AOP brings new obstacles to maintainability. This paper discusses two controlled experiments conducted to evaluate the impact of AspectJ (the most mature and popular aspect-oriented programming language) versus Java on software evolvability. We consider evolvability as the ease with which a software system can be updated to fulfill new requirements. Since a minor language was compared to the mainstream, the experiments were designed so as to anticipate that the participants were much more experienced in one of the treatments. The first experiment was performed on 35 student subjects who were asked to comprehend either Java or AspectJ implementation of the same system, and perform the corresponding comprehension tasks. Participants of both groups achieved a high rate of correct answers without a statistically significant difference between the groups. Nevertheless, the Java group significantly outperformed the AspectJ group with respect to the average completion time. In the second experiment, 24 student subjects were asked to implement (in a noninvasive way) two extension scenarios to the system that they had already known. Each subject evolved either the Java version using Java or the AspectJ version using AspectJ. We found out that a typical AspectJ programmer needs significantly fewer atomic changes to implement the change scenarios than a typical Java programmer, but we did not observe a significant difference in completion time. The overall result indicates that AspectJ has a different effect on two sub-characteristics of the evolvability: understandability and changeability. While AspectJ decreases the former, it improves one aspect of the latter.Empir Software Eng

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The AOSD Research Community in Brazil and Its Crosscutting Impact

Cited by 5 publications

References 105 publications

Authorship trends in software engineering

Authorship trends in software engineering

The crosscutting impact of the AOSD Brazilian research community

An empirical study on the impact of AspectJ on software evolvability

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