Interests: software engineering, formal methods, software design analysis, aspect-oriented/component-based/model-driven software development
Masters Research
Together with
Dr. Dennis K. Peters, we worked on a process for detecting concern interactions in Aspect-Oriented designs expressed in the UML and our domain specific weaving rule specification language (WRL). The process consists of two tasks: 1) a light-weight syntactic analysis of the AO model to reveal advice overlaps (e.g. instances where multiple advice applies to the same join point) as potential sources of interaction and 2) verification of desired model properties before and after weaving to confirm/reject findings of task 1 and/or to reveal new interactions. At the heart of task 2 is a weaving process that maps an unwoven Aspect-Oriented model to a behaviourally equivalent woven Object-Oriented model.