Roles as Modular Units of Composition

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Barbosa, FS (Author) Other; Ademar Aguiar (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: ENASE 2012 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

Pages: 13-22

7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2012

Wroclaw, 29 June 2012 through 30 June 2012

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Scopus - 2 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-008-C05

Abstract (EN): Object oriented decomposition is the most successful decomposition strategy used nowadays. But a single decomposition strategy cannot capture all aspects of a concept. Roles have been successfully used to model the different views a concept may provide but, despite this, roles have not been used as building blocks. Roles are mostly used to extend objects at runtime. In this paper we propose roles as a way to compose classes that provides a modular way of capturing and reusing those aspects that fall outside a concept's main purpose, while being close to the OO approach. We present how roles can be made modular and reusable. We also show how we can use roles to compose classes using JavaStage, a java extension that support roles To validate our approach we developed generic and reusable roles for the Gang of Four patterns. We were able to develop reusable roles for 10 out of 23 patterns, which is a good outcome.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific