A systematic review of comparative evidence of aspect-oriented programming

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 871-887

  Ali, Muhammad Sarmad ^a   Ali Babar, Muhammad ^b   Chen, Lianping ^a   Stol, Klaas Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented programming; Evidence based software engineering; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; CODE SIZE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MODULARIZATIONS; OBJECTIVE ORIENTED; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING JOURNALS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; LINGUISTICS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77953684337     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.05.003     Document Type: Review

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