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| Author(s): |
Santos, Bruno M.
[1]
;
Landi, Andre de S.
[2]
;
Santibanez, Daniel S.
[1]
;
Durelli, Rafael S.
[3]
;
de Camargo, Valter V.
[4]
Total Authors: 5
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil
[2] S2IT Solut Consultoria Ltda, Araraquara, SP - Brazil
[3] Univ Fed Lavras, UFLA, Sci Comp Dept, Lavras, MG - Brazil
[4] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Comp Dept, UFSCar, Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE; v. 149, p. 285-304, MAR 2019. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
Crosscutting concerns are an intrinsic problem of legacy systems, hindering their maintenance and evolution. A possible solution is to modernize these systems employing aspect-orientation, which provides suitable abstractions for modularizing these kind of concerns. Architecture-Driven Modernization is a more specific kind of software reengineering focused on employing standard metamodels along the whole process, promoting interoperability and reusability across different tools/vendors. Its main metamodel is the Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM), which is able to represent a significant amount of system details. However, up to this moment, there is no extension of this metamodel for aspect-orientation, preventing software engineers from conducting Aspect-Oriented Modernizations. Therefore, in this paper we present our experience on creating a heavyweight and a lightweight extension of KDM for aspect orientation. We conducted two evaluations. The first one showed all aspect-oriented concepts were represented in both extensions. The second one was a experiment, in which we have analyzed the productivity of software engineers using both extensions. The results showed that the heavyweight extension propitiate a more productive environment in terms of time and number of errors when compared to the lightweight one. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Inc. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/03104-0 - An Approach Supported by Tests for Architectural Modernisation of Adaptive Systems |
| Grantee: | Valter Vieira de Camargo |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |