Everyday aspects
Gail C. Murphy · 2009
Everyday, programmers perform software evolution tasks that require accessing information from, and often making changes to, multiple modules comprising the target software system. For some of these tasks, aspect-oriented programming languages provide a means of improving the modularization of the target system, making it easier to perform desired evolutionary changes. For other tasks, it can be either too difficult or considered too costly to use a language to describe the modularization associated with a task. In many of these cases, we have found it effective to infer a task-specific form of modularity based on how programmers interact with the source comprising the system. This approach is the basis of the Eclipse Mylyn tools and frameworks, which are being used daily by hundreds of thousands of programmers to reduce information overload, enable recall of modularity associated with tasks and improve programming productivity.