My research focuses on advanced modularity techniques. In particular, my goal is to make programs easier to change. In my research I make use of techniques from aspect-oriented software development and declarative languages.

Conference Papers and Journal Articles

• 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, "Modular-Like Transformations and Style Checking for Crosscutting Programming Concepts," icsecompanion, pp. 95-96, 2007. (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. (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. (doi) (Winner of best student research paper award.)