Software developers create a variety of artifacts that model viour of applications at different levels of abstraction; e.g. use cases, sequence diagrams, and source code. Aspect-o...
Jonathan Sillito, Christopher Dutchyn, Andrew Davi...
Abstract. In aspect-oriented programming, pointcuts are used to describe crossstructure. Pointcuts that abstract over irrelevant implementation details are clearly desired to bette...
In aspect-oriented programming languages, advice evaluation is usually considered as part of the base program evaluation. This is also the case for certain pointcuts, such as if p...
There are numerous mechanisms for separation of concerns at the source code level. Three mechanisms that are the focus of recent attention – metadata annotations, pointcuts and a...
We define a generic join point model for checking the Law of Demeter (LoD). Join points are trees, pointcuts are predicates over join points, and advice is checked statically sim...