Editing Pointcut (section)

== Criticisms ==
Pointcut languages impact important software properties like [[evolvability]] and comprehensibility in a negative way. There might be a possibility where there is a need to perform [[Code refactoring|refactoring]] to define a correct aspect, which in general should not happen since refactoring is to make code cleaner. It is also not [[scalable]] when there are multiple aspects to be applied on the same code and each aspect requires a different refactoring.<ref name=":0">{{Cite CiteSeerX |title=Inductively generated PointCuts to support refactoring to Aspects |year=2004 |citeseerx = 10.1.1.2.594}}</ref> In general every aspect will be tightly coupled with an application's structure as the pointcuts explicitly contain a method's signature, so when an application changes the pointcut needs to be changed as well. This can be quite problematic for a developer.<ref name=":0" />