{"title":"Meta-Level Runtime Feature Awareness for Java","authors":"Andrzej Olszak, Martin Rytter, B. Jørgensen","doi":"10.1109/WCRE.2011.40","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The existing body of feature-location research focuses on discovering feature-code trace ability links for supporting programmers in understanding and modifying static artifacts of software. In this paper, we propose a different utilization of this type of reverse-engineering information. We introduce the concept of runtime feature awareness that enables a running program to establish and make use of its own feature-code trace ability links. We present an implementation of this idea, a dynamic-analysis Java library called JAwareness. JAwareness provides a meta-level architecture that can be non-invasively added to a legacy program to enable it to act upon the activations of its own features. We demonstrate the feasibility of runtime feature awareness by discussing its three applications: error reporting, usage statistics and behavior adaptation.","PeriodicalId":350863,"journal":{"name":"2011 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2011.40","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The existing body of feature-location research focuses on discovering feature-code trace ability links for supporting programmers in understanding and modifying static artifacts of software. In this paper, we propose a different utilization of this type of reverse-engineering information. We introduce the concept of runtime feature awareness that enables a running program to establish and make use of its own feature-code trace ability links. We present an implementation of this idea, a dynamic-analysis Java library called JAwareness. JAwareness provides a meta-level architecture that can be non-invasively added to a legacy program to enable it to act upon the activations of its own features. We demonstrate the feasibility of runtime feature awareness by discussing its three applications: error reporting, usage statistics and behavior adaptation.