Refactoring using Aspect orientation for Object oriented code: A comparison with object oriented refactorings

摘要

AOP is an emerging field that has its applicability in various fields. One of the areas in which its contribution is quite significant is refactoring. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) |1| offers programming constructs to modularize the crosscutting concerns implemented in a program. This paper is an extensive survey that highlights the applicability of AOP in refactoring object oriented code. We cover different aspects where AOP is very useful for the purpose of refactoring. The main additional contributions of this paper relative to the other paper are the more thorough analysis of the OOP and AOP refactoring procedures, their comparison and greater detail of the descriptions of the refactoring processes. In this paper a comparative analysis has been done of an existing software system written using a traditional (OOP) programming paradigm with an equivalent one that takes advantage of the improved separation of concerns provided by aspect oriented programming languages. The mechanics do not attempt to cover all possible situations that can potentially arise in source code.