To realize the benefits of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), developers must refactor active and legacy code bases into an AOP language. When refactoring, developers first need...
David Shepherd, Jeffrey Palm, Lori L. Pollock, Mar...
Abstract—An obfuscation aims to transform a program, without affecting its functionality, so that some secret information within the program can be hidden for as long as possible...
Stephen Drape, Anirban Majumdar, Clark D. Thombors...
Object-oriented frameworks are an established tool for domain-specific reuse. Many framework design patterns and development processes have been documented, typically reverse engin...
David Parsons, Awais Rashid, Andreas Speck, Alexan...
Most real world engineering design optimisation approaches reported in the literature aim to find the best set of solutions using computationally expensive quantitative (QT ) mode...
Component recovery supports program understanding, architecture recovery, and re-use. Among the best known techniques for detection of re-usable objects (related global variables ...