Aspects in the Maintenance of Compiled Programs

Aspect oriented approach to the maintenance of programs with unavailable source code and documentation is proposed. Aspects are used to trace the program execution and identify points, in which aspects implementing new functionalities may be applied. A special tool 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.