Can we refactor conditional compilation into aspects?

Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 243-254

  Adams, Bram ^a   De Meuter, Wolfgang ^b   Tromp, Herman ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Documentation; Experimentation; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ASPECT TECHNOLOGY; CROSSCUTTING CONCERN; DOCUMENTATION; PREPROCESSORS; REFACTORINGS; SOURCE CODES; SYSTEMS SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70450179662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1509239.1509274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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