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The crosscutting impact of the AOSD Brazilian research community

2012; Elsevier BV; Volume: 86; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jss.2012.08.031

1873-1228

Uirá Kulesza, Sérgio Soares, Christina Chávez, Fernando Castor, Paulo Borba, Carlos Lucena, Paulo César Masiero, Cláudio Sant’Anna, Fabiano Cutigi Ferrari, Vander Alves, Roberta Coelho, Eduardo Figueiredo, Paulo F. Pires, Flávia C. Delicato, Eduardo Kessler Piveta, Carla Silva, Valter Vieira de Camargo, Rosana Teresinha Vaccare Braga, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite, Otávio Augusto Lazzarini Lemos, Nabor C. Mendonça, Thaı́s Batista, Rodrigo Bonifácio, Nélio Cacho, Lyrene Fernandes da Silva, Arndt von Staa, Fábio Fagundes Silveira, Marco Túlio Valente, Fernanda Alencar, Jaelson Castro, Ricardo Ramos, Rosângela A. D. Penteado, Cecília M. F. Rubira,

Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a paradigm that promotes advanced separation of concerns and modularity throughout the software development lifecycle, with a distinctive emphasis on modular structures that cut across traditional abstraction boundaries. In the last 15 years, research on AOSD has boosted around the world. The AOSD-BR research community (AOSD-BR stands for AOSD in Brazil) emerged in the last decade, and has provided different contributions in a variety of topics. However, despite some evidence in terms of the number and quality of its outcomes, there is no organized characterization of the AOSD-BR community that positions it against the international AOSD Research community and the Software Engineering Research community in Brazil. In this paper, our main goal is to characterize the AOSD-BR community with respect to the research developed in the last decade, confronting it with the AOSD international community and the Brazilian Software Engineering community. Data collection, validation and analysis were performed in collaboration with several researchers of the AOSD-BR community. The characterization was presented from three different perspectives: (i) a historical timeline of events and main milestones achieved by the community; (ii) an overview of the research developed by the community, in terms of key challenges, open issues and related work; and (iii) an analysis on the impact of the AOSD-BR community outcomes in terms of well-known indicators, such as number of papers and number of citations. Our analysis showed that the AOSD-BR community has impacted both the international AOSD Research community and the Software Engineering Research community in Brazil.