Measuring and characterizing crosscutting in aspect-based programs: Basic metrics and case studies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4422 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 423-437

  Lopez Herrejon, Roberto E ^a   Apel, Sven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; CROSSCUTTING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 37149001326     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71289-3_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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