A graphical tool for observing state and behavioral changes at join points

Haihan Yin

doi:10.1145/2457392.2457405

A graphical tool for observing state and behavioral changes at join points

Haihan Yin

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Abstract

To comprehend programs or to fix a bug, programmers always mentally simulate the program execution by reading the source code. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) increases this mental effort, because it can alter the state and the behavior of the base program at a join point to any extent by executing advices. Advices are implicitly invoked in the source code and their compositions at a join point may vary according to the runtime context. They can access and even change the context values of join points. Without appropriate tools, it is difficult to notice the effects of the implicitly executed advices. The goal of my work is to increase the comprehensibility of AO programs by using a graphical tool, that can succinctly visualize the state and behavioral changes at join points.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference Companion on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2013 Companion
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	29-30
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1873-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2457392.2457405
Publication status	Published - Mar 2013
Event	12th Annual International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2013 - Fukuoka, Japan Duration: 24 Mar 2013 → 29 Mar 2013 Conference number: 12

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Publisher	ACM

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Conference	12th Annual International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2013
Abbreviated title	AOSD
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Fukuoka
Period	24/03/13 → 29/03/13

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EWI-23208
IR-86096
METIS-297605

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Yin, H 2013, A graphical tool for observing state and behavioral changes at join points. in Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference Companion on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2013 Companion. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 29-30, 12th Annual International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2013, Fukuoka, Japan, 24/03/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2457392.2457405

A graphical tool for observing state and behavioral changes at join points. / Yin, Haihan.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference Companion on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2013 Companion. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2013. p. 29-30.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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