Aspect-oriented refactoring is a promising technique for improving modularity and reducing complexity of existing software systems through encapsulating crosscutting concerns. As ...
Reishi Yokomori, Harvey P. Siy, Norihiro Yoshida, ...
A functional aspect is an aspect that has the semantics of a transformation; it is a function that maps a program to an advised program. Functional aspects are composed by functio...
Systems software uses conditional compilation to manage crosscutting concerns in a very fine-grained and efficient way, but at the expense of tangled and scattered conditional c...
Bram Adams, Wolfgang De Meuter, Herman Tromp, Ahme...
Refactoring is a hot and controversial issue. Supporters claim that it helps increasing the quality of the code, making it easier to understand, modify and maintain. Moreover, the...
Raimund Moser, Pekka Abrahamsson, Witold Pedrycz, ...
Model-driven development (MDD) shifts the development focus from code to models, allowing automatic or assisted transformations that are able to generate more refined, detailed or...