Instance Pointcuts for Program Comprehension

Christoph Bockisch; Kardelen Hatun

doi:10.1145/2451592.2451596

Instance Pointcuts for Program Comprehension

Christoph Bockisch, Kardelen Hatun

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Abstract

The dynamic behavior of programs generally cannot be fully observed via the source code, but dynamic tools, e.g. debuggers, have to be used. Comprehending dynamic behavior entails observing object interactions during runtime. The class structure is not always sufficient to understand these interactions since objects of the same type can be used in various places, just as objects of different types can be used in similar places. Our novel concept, instance pointcuts, groups objects based on the events they participate in, introducing a flexible way of creating object categories; a category contains objects that are used in the specified way. This paper proposes an application of instance pointcuts to the program comprehension domain. We illustrate the usefulness of our approach through three comprehension scenarios.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Comprehension of Complex Systems (CoCoS 2013)
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	7-12
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1863-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2451592.2451596
Publication status	Published - Mar 2013
Event	International Workshop on Comprehension of Complex Systems, CoCoS 2013 - Fukuoka, Japan Duration: 25 Mar 2013 → 25 Mar 2013

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Name
Publisher	ACM

Workshop

Workshop	International Workshop on Comprehension of Complex Systems, CoCoS 2013
Period	25/03/13 → 25/03/13
Other	25 March 2013

Keywords

EWI-23207
CR-D.2.5
CR-D.3.3
instance pointcuts
object categories
METIS-296374
Aspect Oriented Programming
Debugging
Program comprehension
IR-85825
Object-oriented programming

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