On the modularization and reuse of exception handling with aspects

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1377-1417

  Castor, Fernando ^a   Cacho, Nélio ^b   Figueiredo, Eduardo ^c   Garcia, Alessandro ^d   Rubira, Cecília M F ^e   De Amorim, Jefferson Silva ^f   Da Silva, Hítalo Oliveira ^f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-J; ASPECT-ORIENTED; ERROR-HANDLING; EXCEPTION HANDLERS; EXCEPTION HANDLING; IN-DEPTH STUDY; MODULARIZATIONS; MULTI-PERSPECTIVE; OBJECT ORIENTED; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REFACTORINGS; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

MODULAR CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 72149119490     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.939     Document Type: Article

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