Aspect Mining based on Control-Flow

Aspect mining tries to identify crosscutting concerns in existing systems and thus supports the adaption to an aspectoriented design. This paper describes an automatic static aspect mining approach, where the control flow graphs of a program are investigated for recurring execution patterns based on different constraints, such as the requirement that the patterns have to exist in different calling contexts. A case study done with the implemented tool shows that most discovered crosscutting candidates are most often perfectly good style.