Rachel Burrows, François Taïani, Alessandro Garcia, and Fabiano C. Ferrari

Reasoning about Faults in Aspect-Oriented Programs: A Metrics-Based Evaluation

The 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2011, Kingston, ON, Canada, June, pp. 131-140, ISBN 978-1-61284-308-7, IEEE Computer Society, 2011 (10p.)

Abstract
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) aims at facilitating program comprehension and maintenance in the presence of crosscutting concerns. Aspect code is often introduced and extended as the software projects evolve. Unfortunately, we still lack a good understanding of how faults are introduced in evolving aspect-oriented programs. More importantly, there is little knowledge whether existing metrics are related to typical fault introduction processes in evolving aspect-oriented code. This paper presents an exploratory study focused on the analysis of how faults are introduced during maintenance tasks involving aspects. The results indicate a recurring set of fault patterns in this context, which can better inform the design of future metrics for AOP. We also pinpoint AOP-specific fault categories which are difficult to detect with popular metrics for fault-proneness, such as coupling and code churn.

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doi: http://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2011.30 (publisher's link)

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