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Detecting Broken Pointcuts Using Structural Commonality And Degree Of Interest, Raffi T. Khatchadourian, Awais Rashd, Hidehiko Masuhara, Takuya Watanabe Nov 2015

Detecting Broken Pointcuts Using Structural Commonality And Degree Of Interest, Raffi T. Khatchadourian, Awais Rashd, Hidehiko Masuhara, Takuya Watanabe

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Pointcut fragility is a well-documented problem in Aspect-Oriented Programming; changes to the base code can lead to join points incorrectly falling in or out of the scope of pointcuts. Deciding which pointcuts have broken due to base-code changes is daunting, especially in large and complex systems. We present an automated approach that recommends pointcuts that are likely to require modification due to a certain base-code change and ones that do not. Our hypothesis is that join points selected by a pointcut exhibit common structural characteristics. Patterns describing such commonalities recommend pointcuts that have potentially broken to the developer. The approach …


Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi T. Khatchadourian Oct 2015

Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi T. Khatchadourian

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Java 8 is one of the largest upgrades to the popular language and framework in over a decade. However, the Eclipse IDE is missing several key refactorings that could help developers take advantage of new features in Java 8 more easily. In this paper, we discuss our ongoing work in porting the enhanced for loop to lambda expression refactoring from the NetBeans IDE to Eclipse. We also discuss future plans for new Java 8 refactorings not found in any current IDE.


Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi T. Khatchadourian Oct 2015

Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi T. Khatchadourian

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Java 8 is one of the largest upgrades to the popular language and framework in over a decade. However, the Eclipse IDE is missing several key refactorings that could help developers take advantage of new features in Java 8 more easily. In this paper, we discuss our ongoing work in porting the enhanced for loop to lambda expression refactoring from the NetBeans IDE to Eclipse. We also discuss future plans for new Java 8 refactorings not found in any current IDE.


Fraglight: Shedding Light On Broken Pointcuts In Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software, Raffi T. Khatchadourian, Awais Rashid, Hidehiko Masuhara, Takuya Watanabe Oct 2015

Fraglight: Shedding Light On Broken Pointcuts In Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software, Raffi T. Khatchadourian, Awais Rashid, Hidehiko Masuhara, Takuya Watanabe

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Pointcut fragility is a well-documented problem in Aspect-Oriented Programming; changes to the base code can lead to join points incorrectly falling in or out of the scope of pointcuts. Deciding which pointcuts have broken due to base-code changes is daunting, especially in large and complex systems. We demonstrate an automated tool called FRAGLIGHT that recommends a set of pointcuts that are likely to require modification due to a certain base-code change. The underlying approach is rooted in harnessing unique and arbitrarily deep structural commonality between program elements corresponding to join points selected by a pointcut in a particular software version. …