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HAM: cross-cutting concerns in Eclipse

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As programs evolve, newly added functionality sometimes no longer aligns with the original design, ending up scattered across the software system. Aspect mining tries to identify such cross-cutting concerns in a program to support maintenance, or as a first step towards an aspect-oriented program. Previous approaches to aspect mining applied static or dynamic program analysis techniques to a single version of a system. We exploit all versions from a system's CVS history to mine aspect candidates; we are about to extend our research prototype to an Eclipse plug-in called HAM: when a single CVS commit adds calls to the same (small) set of methods in many unrelated locations, these method calls are likely to be cross-cutting. HAM employs formal concept analysis to identify aspect candidates. Analysing one commit operation at a time makes the approach scale to industrial-sized programs. In an evaluation we mined cross-cutting concerns from Eclipse 3.2M3 and found that up to 90% of the top-10 aspect candidates are truly cross-cutting concerns.

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  • (2010)Identifying cross-cutting concerns using software repository miningProceedings of the Joint ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL) and International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE)10.1145/1862372.1862381(23-32)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2010
  • (2009)Evaluating Process Quality Based on Change Request Data --- An Empirical Study of the Eclipse ProjectProceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_17(227-241)Online publication date: 9-Nov-2009

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eclipse '06: Proceedings of the 2006 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
October 2006
93 pages
ISBN:1595936211
DOI:10.1145/1188835
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Published: 22 October 2006

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  1. CVS
  2. Eclipse
  3. aspect mining
  4. aspect-oriented programming
  5. formal concept analysis
  6. java
  7. mining version archives

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  • (2010)Identifying cross-cutting concerns using software repository miningProceedings of the Joint ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL) and International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE)10.1145/1862372.1862381(23-32)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2010
  • (2009)Evaluating Process Quality Based on Change Request Data --- An Empirical Study of the Eclipse ProjectProceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_17(227-241)Online publication date: 9-Nov-2009

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