Refactoring of Crosscutting Concerns with Metaphor-Based Heuristics

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 233, Issue C, 2009, Pages 105-125

  da Silva, Bruno Carreiro ^a   Figueiredo, Eduardo ^b   Garcia, Alessandro ^b   Nunes, Daltro ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented programming; Crosscutting concerns; Design heuristics; Metaphor based classification; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; MAINTAINABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TERMINOLOGY;

ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; CROSSCUTTING CONCERNS; DESIGN HEURISTICS; METAPHOR-BASED CLASSIFICATION; REFACTORING;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 62849101855     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.064     Document Type: Article

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