Identifying crosscutting concerns using fan-in analysis

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Marin, Marius ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^a   Moonen, Leon ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented programming; Crosscutting concerns; Fan in metric; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-ORIENTED LITERATURE; CROSSCUTTING CONCERNS; FAN-IN METRIC;

DATA MINING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 38349160454     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1314493.1314496     Document Type: Article

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