Improving dynamic data analysis with aspect-oriented programming

In this paper we present a new instrumentation approach to reverse engineer a given software application. Our approach is based on aspect-oriented programming and provides support for dynamic feature analysis. The advantage of bur approach compared to other existing approaches is that we allow the engineer to obtain deeper insights into the program executions and to combine these insights with existing analysis techniques. As we show in this paper this significantly reduces the time necessary to obtain viable traces of a program's execution.