QJBrowser : sutitle a query based approach to explore concerns
This dissertation presents a query-based browsing tool called QJBrowser that can assist developers in working with crosscutting concerns. Although there is no apparent limit to the number of different kinds of crosscutting views of source code that are potentially interesting to developers, many...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13437 |
| Summary: | This dissertation presents a query-based browsing tool called QJBrowser that
can assist developers in working with crosscutting concerns. Although there is no
apparent limit to the number of different kinds of crosscutting views of source code
that are potentially interesting to developers, many existing browser tools are capable
of producing only a limited set of pre-defined views. This is because the logic
to locate and display code units is typically pre-programmed into these tools and
users have only limited control over it.
QJBrowser addresses this problem by providing a mechanism by which developers
can dynamically define interesting views. The goals of QJBrowser are the
following:
• It must be configurable enough to define a multitude of different kinds of views
on source code.
• It must be simple enough so that a developer can define views on demand.
• It must provide an interface that is familiar to software developers.
• The query language that it provides must be extensible.
• Finally, it must provide assistance for the exploration of crosscutting concerns
in source code.
Besides presenting the motivation and concepts of QJBrowser, this dissertation
intends to provide evidence by using examples and observations from preliminary
experience, that QJBrowser in fact meets these aforementioned goals. |
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