Using aspect orientation in legacy environments for reverse engineering using dynamic analysis—An industrial experience report

Adams, Bram; Schutter, Kris De; Zaidman, Andy; Demeyer, Serge; Tromp, Herman; Meuter, Wolfgang De

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2008.09.031

Cited by 5 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 82 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…As the name implies, DCBO is the dynamic form of the well-known Coupling Between 1 https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/codepro/doc/ Objects (CBO) metric [34]. In this research, we use an automatic code instrumentation method represented in Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to collect this dynamic metric data, in line with several previous works (e.g., [35][36][37]). Metrics data are collected using the AspectJ framework -a well-established Java implementation of AOP.…”

Section: Metrics Definitionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Combining Dynamic Analysis and Visualization to Explore the Distribution of Unit Test Suites

Tahir

MacDonell

2015

2015 IEEE/ACM 6th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As software systems have grown in scale and complexity the test suites built alongside those systems have also become increasingly complex. Understanding key aspects of test suites, such as their coverage of production code, is important when maintaining or reengineering systems. This work investigates the distribution of unit tests in Open Source Software (OSS) systems through the visualization of data obtained from both dynamic and static analysis. Our long-term aim is to support developers in their understanding of test distribution and the relationship of tests to production code. We first obtain dynamic coupling information from five selected OSS systems and we then map the test and production code results. The mapping is shown in graphs that depict both the dependencies between classes and static test information. We analyze these graphs using Centrality metrics derived from graph theory and SNA. Our findings suggest that, for these five systems at least, unit test and dynamic coupling information 'do not match', in that unit tests do not appear to be distributed in line with the systems' dynamic coupling. We contend that, by mapping dynamic coupling data onto unit test information, and through the use of software metrics and visualization, we can locate central system classes and identify to which classes unit testing effort has (or has not) been dedicated.

show abstract

Section: Metrics Definitionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Combining Dynamic Analysis and Visualization to Explore the Distribution of Unit Test Suites

Tahir

MacDonell

2015

2015 IEEE/ACM 6th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This instrumentation can help a developer to collect precisely all the information needed to address a particular problem in the software [5]. Dynamic analysis has been used largely in the fields of software measurement [7,14,[17][18], software maintenance and reengineering [19][20], in clustering [21], and in program understanding and comprehension [12,22] .…”

Section: Background a Dynamic Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic mapping study on dynamic metrics and software quality

Tahir

MacDonell

2012

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Object-oriented technology provides powerful tools, such as encapsulation or multiple inheritances of objects, which enable programmers to construct more functionality with less code than previous methods. More importantly, it can minimize the impact of change by combining data and the functions associated with it into a single package -the object -thus reducing the amount of time and effort necessary to produce an application and also increases reuse of software [2]. The approach developed by OMG was discussed.…”

Section: Comparative Analysis Of Aop and Oopsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research shows that CCCs represent an important evolution problem in legacy systems, especially if one takes the scale of these systems into account (millions of lines of code). AOP can also be used in the dynamic analysis of the legacy systems that no other paradigm can assist [2].…”

Section: Comparative Analysis Of Aop and Oopsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Study of Using Object Oriented Approach and aspect Oriented Approach for the Evolution of Legacy System

Rizvi¹,

Khanam²

2010

IJCA

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Legacy systems are vital to an organization, and sometimes form the backbone of an organization, yet their maintenance and evolution had been an area of research for a long time. Besides being costly to maintain, legacy systems often lag behind changes in the businesses they support. The challenge in today's environment is to develop a methodology to migrate older systems to newer, more cost effective client-server distributed processing platforms that support standards-based modular architectures.One approach is to employ a "wrapper" of code that surrounds the existing legacy code, turning it into an object. This could be stated as an object oriented approach to legacy systems. However, there are many other paradigms that a legacy system might adopt. Aspect-oriented technology is another emerging programming paradigm that is receiving considerable attention from research and practitioner communities alike. Nowadays much of the work is carried on, on developing different methodologies to enable aspect oriented programming to be applied to legacy systems. In this paper, we try to analyze the impact of object oriented technology and aspect oriented technology on legacy systems and the environment that is required to implement the two paradigms. The advantages and disadvantages of both the paradigms have been explored, and a comparative study of both the paradigms is done and analyzed in the light of legacy systems.

show abstract

Using aspect orientation in legacy environments for reverse engineering using dynamic analysis—An industrial experience report

Cited by 5 publications

References 82 publications

Combining Dynamic Analysis and Visualization to Explore the Distribution of Unit Test Suites

Combining Dynamic Analysis and Visualization to Explore the Distribution of Unit Test Suites

A systematic mapping study on dynamic metrics and software quality

A Comparative Study of Using Object Oriented Approach and aspect Oriented Approach for the Evolution of Legacy System

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About