A Reflective Approach to Dynamic Software Evolution
Peter Ebraert, Tom Tourwé · 2004
In this paper, we present a solution that allows systems to remain active while they are evolving. Our approach goes out from the principle of separated concerns and has two steps. In the first step, we have to make sure that the system's evolvable concerns are cleanly separated. We propose aspect mining and static refactorings for separating those concerns. In a second step, we allow every concern to evolve separately. We present a preliminary reflective framework that allows dynamic evolution of separate concerns.