Aspect-oriented reverse engineering

Achieving a well modularized design in a complex software system involves the identification of crosscutting concerns (aspects) In this paper, we introduce a static aspect mining approach to identify behavioral and business aspects This approach can be considered as a design-level restructuring method that reformulates an existing object-oriented design and identifies crosscutting concerns such that the result of restructuring will be an aspect-oriented design In this method of restructuring we represent the semantics of UML artifacts by using a set of production rules which refer to object definitions and relationships metadata. in order to analyze the design structure to identify crosscutting concerns Our goal in creating production rules is to have a representation of concerns that can be analyzed to identify crosscutting In particular, the result of our proposed restructuring process is an aspect-oriented design such that either aspects are introduced into the object-oriented design or certain classes are restructured as aspects