Many authors have implied dependency cycles are widespread among the classes of object-oriented software systems. Proponents of the design principle Avoid cyclic dependencies amon...
The goals of aspect oriented software development (AOSD) and frameworks for configurable protocols (CPs) are similar in many respects. AOSD allows the specification of crosscuttin...
One of the main promises of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is to promote improved modularization of crosscutting concerns, thereby enhancing the software stability in the prese...
—Coupling in software applications is often used as an indicator of external quality attributes such as fault-proneness. In fact, the correlation of coupling metrics and faults i...
Following last two years' RAM-SE (Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution) workshop at the ECOOP conference, the RAM-SE 2006 workshop was a successful and popular...
Walter Cazzola, Shigeru Chiba, Yvonne Coady, Gunte...