Evaluating emerging software development technologies: lessons learned from assessing aspect-oriented programming

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 438-455

  Murphy, Gail C ^a   Walker, Robert J ^a   Baniassad, Elisa L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033163675     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.799936     Document Type: Article

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