Towards a catalog of aspect-oriented refactorings

• Author(s): Monteiro, Miguel Pessoa ; Fernandes, João M.
• Date: 2005
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/893
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Aspect-oriented programming; Object-oriented programming; Refactoring; Code smells; Programming style
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Comunicação aprovada à International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD), 4, Chicago, 2005. In this paper, we present a collection of aspect-oriented refactorings covering both the extraction of aspects from object-oriented legacy code and the subsequent tidying up of the resulting aspects. In some cases, this tidying up entails the replacement of the original implementation with a different, centralized design, made possible by modularization. The collection of refactorings includes the extraction of common code in various aspects into abstract superaspects. We review the traditional object-oriented code smells in the light of aspect-orientation and propose some new smells for the detection of crosscutting concerns. In addition, we propose a new code smell that is specific to aspects.