My research focuses on advanced modularity techniques. In
particular I develop tools and techniques for making programs easier to
change and easier to understand.
Part of my research is inspired by the ideas found in aspect-oriented software development.
Publications
- Macneil Shonle, William G. Griswold, Sorin Lerner. Beyond Refactoring: A Framework for Modular Maintenance of Crosscutting Design Idioms. ESEC/FSE-15: Proceedings of the 11th European software engineering conference held jointly with 15th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering, 2007. (doi)
William G. Griswold, Kevin Sullivan, Yuanyuan Song, Macneil Shonle, Nishit Tewari, Yuanfang Cai, and Hridesh Rajan. Modular Software Design with Crosscutting Interfaces. IEEE Software, 23(1):51-60, 2006. (doi)
Kevin Sullivan, William G. Griswold, Yuanyuan Song, Yuanfang Cai, Macneil Shonle, Nishit Tewari, and Hridesh Rajan. Information hiding interfaces for aspect-oriented design. In ESEC/FSE-13: Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering, pages 166-175, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press. (doi)
- Macneil Shonle, Karl Lieberherr, and Ankit Shah. XAspects: An Extensible System for Domain-Specific Aspect Languages. In Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, pages 28-37. ACM Press, 2003. (bibtex, doi)
Refereed Workshop and Symposium Papers
Macneil Shonle, William G. Griswold, Sorin Lerner. Addressing Common Crosscutting Problems with Arcum. 2008. (6 pages; To Appear at PASTE 2008)
- Macneil Shonle, William G. Griswold, Sorin Lerner. When Refactoring Acts like Modularity: Keeping Options Open with Persistent Condition Checking. 2008. (4 pages; To Appear at WRT 2008)
Macneil Shonle, "Modular-Like Transformations and Style Checking for Crosscutting Programming Concepts," icsecompanion, pp. 95-96, 2007. (2 pages; ICSE 2007 Doctoral Symposium; 33% acceptance rate)
Macneil Shonle, Jonathan Neddenriep, and William Griswold. AspectBrowser for Eclipse: a case study in plug-in retargeting. In eclipse '04: Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange, pages 78-82, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM Press. (5 pages; doi)
Alexis O'Connor, Macneil Shonle, and William Griswold. Star diagram with automated refactorings for Eclipse. In eclipse '05: Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange, pages 16-20, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press. (5 pages; Winner of best student research paper award; doi)