Aspect-oriented programming is built on the concept of separating concerns. While separation of concerns reduces textual scattering and tangling by encapsulating concerns within a localised module, the behaviour of an aspect-oriented program becomes scattered. Capturing the sequential behaviour of an aspect-oriented program is essential for the validation of the program’s run-time semantics.
SequenceRetriever, a tool for retrieving UML sequence diagrams during the execution of a program is presented. The SequenceRetriever tool is built on top of an extensible framework which facilitates the development of additional trace components and diagram types. An AspectJ trace component and an Eclipse TPTP trace component is implemented. Using the two trace components, sequence diagrams of several programs is presented. A comparison between the AspectJ and TPTP sequence diagrams reveal the ajc weaver implementation of several aspect-oriented constructs.
Download Retrieve Sequence Diagrams from Aspect-Oriented Systems (185), course project for CS842: Aspect-Oriented Programming.
