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Mapping Features to Aspects: A Model-Based Generative Approach

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Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions (EAW 2007)

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Handling the various derivations of an aspect-oriented software family architecture can be a daunting and costly task if explicit support is not systematically provided throughout early and late development stages. Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) has been recently explored as a technique that enables software product line customization. However, the application of AOSD has been limited to modularize specific crosscutting features encountered in the implementation of software product-line architectures or frameworks. Only a few works have investigated the development of product derivation approaches for AOSD. This paper presents a model-based generative approach to mapping features to aspects across different artifacts of a product line. Our main aim is to enable the smooth and systematic derivation of aspect-oriented software family architecture. Our approach is complementary to a set of previously-proposed modularization guidelines to implement aspect-oriented frameworks. We present details about the suite of mappings supported by our generative model, illustrate them in heterogeneous case studies, and discuss several implementation issues for its accomplishment.

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  1. PUC-Rio, Computer Science Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Uirá Kulesza, Elder Cirilo & Carlos J. P. de Lucena

  2. New University of Lisboa, FCT, Computer Science Department, Lisboa, Portugal

    Uirá Kulesza, Alberto Costa Neto & Paulo Borba

  3. Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Vander Alves & Alessandro Garcia

  4. Lancaster University, Computing Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Vander Alves

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Kulesza, U. et al. (2007). Mapping Features to Aspects: A Model-Based Generative Approach. In: Moreira, A., Grundy, J. (eds) Early Aspects: Current Challenges and Future Directions. EAW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4765. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76811-1_9

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