 Concern Graphs
started 8/12/2002; 3:43:15 AM - last post 8/12/2002; 3:43:15 AM
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jon fernquest - Concern Graphs 
8/12/2002; 3:43:15 AM (reads: 1414, responses: 0)
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Subtitled "Finding and Describing Concerns Using Structural Program Dependencies."
FEAT
is a tool for locating aspects (cross-cutting concerns or features)
in source code that wasn't written with Aspect Oriented Programming.
Perhaps it should be called "Aspect Oriented Maintenance Programming." Unlike previous approaches, FEAT is not based on mere lines of source code:
Developers working on existing programs repeatedly have to address concerns
(features, aspects...) that are not well modularized in the source code
comprising a system. In such cases, a developer has to first locate the
implementation of the concern in the source code comprising the system,
and then document the concern sufficiently to be able to understand it and
perform the actual change task. Existing approaches available to help
software developers locate and manage scattered concerns use a representation
based on lines of source code. Such a line-of-code representation makes it difficult
to understand the concern and limits the analysis possibilities. ...
...By visually navigating structural program
dependencies through the tool's graphical interface, you can
locate the code implementing a concern, and store the result
as an abstract representation consisting of building blocks that
are easy to manipulate and query.
Posted to Software-Eng by jon fernquest on 8/12/02; 3:51:35 AM
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