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An exploratory study of fault-proneness in evolving aspect-oriented programs

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An exploratory study of fault-proneness in evolving aspect-oriented programs. / Ferrari, Fabiano; Burrows, Rachel; Lemos, Otávio et al.
ICSE '10 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1. New York: ACM, 2010. p. 65-74.

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Ferrari, F, Burrows, R, Lemos, O, Garcia, A, Figueiredo, E, Cacho, N, Lopes, F, Temudo, N, Silva, L, Soares, S, Rashid, A, Masiero, P, Batista, T & Maldonado, J 2010, An exploratory study of fault-proneness in evolving aspect-oriented programs. in ICSE '10 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1. ACM, New York, pp. 65-74, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Capetown, South Africa, 2/05/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1806799.1806813

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Ferrari, F., Burrows, R., Lemos, O., Garcia, A., Figueiredo, E., Cacho, N., Lopes, F., Temudo, N., Silva, L., Soares, S., Rashid, A., Masiero, P., Batista, T., & Maldonado, J. (2010). An exploratory study of fault-proneness in evolving aspect-oriented programs. In ICSE '10 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1 (pp. 65-74). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1806799.1806813

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Ferrari F, Burrows R, Lemos O, Garcia A, Figueiredo E, Cacho N et al. An exploratory study of fault-proneness in evolving aspect-oriented programs. In ICSE '10 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1. New York: ACM. 2010. p. 65-74 doi: 10.1145/1806799.1806813

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Ferrari, Fabiano ; Burrows, Rachel ; Lemos, Otávio et al. / An exploratory study of fault-proneness in evolving aspect-oriented programs. ICSE '10 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1. New York : ACM, 2010. pp. 65-74

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abstract = "This paper presents the results of an exploratory study on the fault- proneness of aspect-oriented programs. We analysed the faults collected from three evolving aspect-oriented systems, all from different application domains. The analysis develops from two different angles. Firstly, we measured the impact of the obliviousness property on the fault-proneness of the evaluated systems. The results show that 40% of reported faults were due to the lack of awareness among base code and aspects. The second analysis regarded the fault-proneness of the main aspect-oriented programming (AOP) mechanisms, namely pointcuts, advices and intertype declarations. The results indicate that these mechanisms present similar fault-proneness when we consider both the overall system and concern- specific implementations. Our findings are reinforced by means of statistical tests. In general, this result contradicts the common intuition stating that the use of pointcut languages is the main source of faults in AOP.",
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