Aspects in the maintenance of compiled programs

Abstract

We propose a new approach to the maintenance of programs with unavailable source code and documentation i.e. aspects oriented programming [2,3,4]. Aspects are used to trace the program execution and identify points, in which aspects implementing new functionalities may be applied. A special tool [1,10] for aspect oriented program tracing was designed and implemented. This tool is necessary to use the proposed approach. A modification of GIU interface of a compiled program without source code and documentation is presented. Advantages and disadvantages of described concepts are pointed out. © 2008 IEEE.