Understanding crosscutting concerns is difficult because their underlying relations remain hidden in a class-based decomposition of a system. Based on an extensive investigation of crosscutting concerns in existing systems and literature, we identified a number of typical implementation idioms and relations that allow us to group such concerns around socalled .sorts.. In this paper, we present SOQUET, a tool that uses sorts to support the consistent description and documentation of crosscutting relations using pre-defined, sort-specific query templates.
Citation:
Marius Marin, Leon Moonen, Arie van Deursen, "SoQueT: Query-Based Documentation of Crosscutting Concerns," icse, pp.758-761, 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07), 2007