A Change Impact Analysis Model for Aspect Oriented Programs

Fabrice Déhoulé, Linda Badri, Mourad Badri

2017

Abstract

Software change impact analysis (IA) plays a crucial role in software evolution. IA aims at identifying the possible effects of a source code modification. It is often used to evaluate the effects of a change after its implementation. However, more proactive approaches use IA to predict the potential effects of a change before it is implemented. In this way, IA provides useful information that can be used, among others, to guide the implementation of the change and to support regression tests selection. This paper aims at proposing a change impact analysis model for AspectJ programs. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a natural extension of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). It particularly promotes improved separation of crosscutting concerns into single units called aspects. The IA techniques proposed for object-oriented programs are not directly applicable for aspect-oriented programs due to the new dependencies introduced by aspects. The proposed model was designed to particularly support predictive IA. The model includes several impact rules based on the AspectJ language constructs. We performed an empirical evaluation of the model using several AspectJ programs. In order to assess the model prediction quality, we used two traditional measures: precision and recall. The reported results show that the model is able to achieve high accuracy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Déhoulé F., Badri L. and Badri M. (2017). A Change Impact Analysis Model for Aspect Oriented Programs . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-250-9, pages 144-157. DOI: 10.5220/0006350701440157

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase17,
author={Fabrice Déhoulé and Linda Badri and Mourad Badri},
title={A Change Impact Analysis Model for Aspect Oriented Programs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2017},
pages={144-157},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006350701440157},
isbn={978-989-758-250-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - A Change Impact Analysis Model for Aspect Oriented Programs
SN - 978-989-758-250-9
AU - Déhoulé F.
AU - Badri L.
AU - Badri M.
PY - 2017
SP - 144
EP - 157
DO - 10.5220/0006350701440157