Toward debugging programs written in multiple domain specific aspect languages

Apter, Yoav; Lorenz, David H.; Mishali, Oren

doi:10.1145/1960496.1960499

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“…The result is saved in a debug attribute (GranularityAttribute) that is attached to each corresponding code element in the woven class files. The following pseudo code shows the calculation of the granularity attribute for a method or a class element C in the base system: 1 GranularityAttribute att; 2 Shadow[] shadows = reify(C); 3 foreach s in shadows The reify method in line 2 returns all the join point shadows in C. In line 4, the signature of each shadow is appended to the debug attribute (a debug attribute is simply a string that is later added to a class file). Afterward, we check for each of the mechanisms in the composition whether its granularity includes the kind of the current shadow (lines 5-6).…”

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A debug interface for debugging multiple domain specific aspect languages

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Lorenz

Mishali

2012

Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

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Research in the area of multi-DSAL development has been mainly devoted to enabling the interoperability of multiple aspect mechanisms. Less attention has been given to making programming with multiple aspect languages practical. For domain specific aspect languages (DSALs) to be used in practice, there is a need for tools that make multi-DSAL development effective. This paper focuses on one such tool: a debugger. We define a multi-DSAL debug interface (MDDI) for inspecting the composition specification and the runtime state and behavior of applications written in multiple DSALs. To implement the interface, a multi-DSAL debug agent and special debug attributes are introduced into the weaving process. A concrete implementation of MDDI over the AWESOME aspect composition framework is presented. For validation we demonstrate a simple command line AWESOMEDEBUGGER that uses the debug interface.

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Section: Composition Specification Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This mode of development is denoted here as multi-DSAL development [1]. A major research effort in this area is to coordinate the collaborative operation of the aspect mechanisms [9] implementing the various DSALs.…”

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