Dynamic Framed Aspects for Dynamic Software Evolution

Software evolution is an inevitable process when developing a system of any notable size and is the most costly stage in the life cycle of a system. Automating parts of this process will reduce the resources required to carry out this stage of development. We aim to develop a framework that achieves this automated evolution by using Dynamic AOP to encapsulate these evolutionary changes and allow them to be applied dynamically at runtime. However, a problem with this is being able to reuse these aspects in different systems and scenarios. We propose the use of framed aspects to parameterise the aspects to generalise them so they can then be customised for a specific use.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ECOOP
• Authors: Philip Greenwood
• Keywords: Costly Stage, ECOOP 2004, Inevitable Process, Notable Size, Programming Languages