L. Fernandes

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  Available from: Ana Moreira

  Conference Proceeding: Detecting architecture instabilities with concern traces: An exploratory study

  E. Figueiredo, I. Galvao, S.S. Khan, A. Garcia, C. Sant'Anna, A. Pimentel, A.L. Medeiros, L. Fernandes, T. Batista, R. Ribeiro, P. van den Broek, M. Aksit, S. Zschaler, A. Moreira
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  ABSTRACT: Sustaining architecture stability in incremental software development is an important aim for software engineers. Traceability mechanisms can be used to assess and predict architecture stability based on recorded information of early software artefacts. However, there is little empirical knowledge on whether traceability of stakeholders' concerns can assist the identification of architecture instabilities. This paper reports on a first exploratory study that analyses the effectiveness of concern traces for architecture stability assessment. We investigate to what extent properties of concern traces, such as their shapes, are correlated with architectural instabilities. Our analysis is based on eight releases implementing two versions of a software product line for handling mobile media.
  Software Architecture, 2009 & European Conference on Software Architecture. WICSA/ECSA 2009. Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on; 10/2009
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  Available from: João Araújo

  Conference Proceeding: On the Contributions of an End-to-End AOSD Testbed

  P. Greenwood, A. Garcia, A. Rashid, E. Figueiredo, C. Sant'Anna, N. Cacho, A. Sampaio, S. Soares, P. Borba, M. Dosea, [......], A. Moreira, J. Araujo, T. Batista, A. Medeiros, F. Dantas, L. Fernandes, J. Wloka, C. Chavez, R. France, I. Brito
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  ABSTRACT: Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques are gaining increased attention from both academic and industrial organisations. In order to promote a smooth adoption of such techniques it is of paramount importance to perform empirical analysis of AOSD to gather a better understanding of its benefits and limitations. In addition, the effects of aspect-oriented (AO) mechanisms on the entire development process need to be better assessed rather than just analysing each development phase in isolation. As such, this paper outlines our initial effort on the design of a testbed that will provide end-to-end systematic comparison of AOSD techniques with other mainstream modularisation techniques. This will allow the proponents of AO and non- AO techniques to compare their approaches in a consistent manner. The testbed is currently composed of: (i) a benchmark application, (ii) an initial set of metrics suite to assess certain internal and external software attributes, and (in) a "repository" of artifacts derived from AOSD approaches that are assessed based on the application of (i) and (ii). This paper mainly documents a selection of techniques that will be initially applied to the benchmark. We also discuss the expected initial outcomes such a testbed will feed back to the compared techniques. The applications of these techniques are contributions from different research groups working on AOSD.
  Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design, 2007. Early Aspects at ICSE: Workshops in; 06/2007