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Tracing program actions back to the concerns that have caused them and blaming specific code artifacts for concern interference are known challenges of AOP and related advanced modularity paradigms. In this work, we address these challenges in the context of AspectLTL, a temporal-logic-based language for the specification and implementation of crosscutting concerns, which has a composition and synthesis-based weaving process whose output is a correct-by-construction executable artifact. When a specification is realizable, we provide two-way traceability information that links each allowed or forbidden transition in the generated program with the aspects that have justified its presence or elimination. When a specification is unrealizable, we provide an interactive game proof that demonstrates conflicts that should be fixed. The techniques are implemented and demonstrated using running examples.
Preliminary version appeared in AOSD’12 [19]. This research was supported by The John von Neumann Minerva Center for the Development of Reactive Systems at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In addition, part of this research was funded by an Advanced Research Grant awarded to David Harel of the Weizmann Institute from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Community’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013).
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Maoz, S., Sa’ar, Y. (2013). Two-Way Traceability and Conflict Debugging for AspectLTL Programs. In: Leavens, G.T., Chiba, S., Tanter, É. (eds) Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development X. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36964-3_2
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