Conference Papers: Aspect Mining for Aspect Refactoring: An Experience Report

Aspect-Oriented programming currently suffers from one increasingly important problem: while there is an abundance of aspectoriented languages and systems, only few example programs are publicly available. To lighten this situation, we set out to refactor crosscutting concerns into aspects for Open Source Java systems. Aspect Mining (AM) is an important enabler of Aspect-Oriented Refactoring (AOR), and this paper reports about our preliminary experience with automatic and manual aspect refactoring. From this experience we formulate interesting research questions for further research.