A Flexible Approach for Solving Quality Issues by Means of Collecting Runtime Data

This paper presents an approach to solve specific quality issues in an industrial project. Some use cases are discussed that tackle quality and refactoring challenges. The solution consists of adding a few new reusable components to the existing code base of the project to achieve a flexible and configurable collection of runtime data. This runtime data is subsequently used to identify quality issues whereupon refactoring can take place. The paper demonstrates in detail the benefits of using aspect-orientation, particularly the AspectJ language, and reports on experiences.