JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 12(7): 811-827, doi: 10.3217/jucs-012-07-0811
Detecting Bad Smells in AspectJ
expand article infoEduardo Kessler Piveta‡, Marcelo Hecht‡, Marcelo Soares Pimenta‡, Roberto Tom Price‡
‡ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Corresponding author: Eduardo Piveta ( epiveta@inf.ufrgs.br )

© Eduardo Piveta, Marcelo Hecht, Marcelo Pimenta, Roberto Price.
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Citation: Piveta EK, Hecht M, Pimenta MS, Price RT (2006) Detecting Bad Smells in AspectJ. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 12(7): 811-827. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-012-07-0811
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Abstract
This paper defines algorithms to automatically detect five types of bad smells that occur in aspect-oriented systems, more specifically those written using the AspectJ language. We provide a prototype implementation to evaluate the detection algorithms in a case study, where bad smells are detected in three well-known AspectJ systems.
Keywords
aspect oriented software development, AspectJ language, refactoring