Components meet aspects: Assessing design stability of a software product line

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 121-136

  Tizzei, Leonardo P ^a   Dias, Marcelo ^a   Rubira, Cecília M F ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^b   Lee, Jaejoon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

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

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspect Oriented Software Development; Component based Development; Design stability; Product Line Architecture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL MODIFICATION; ASPECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ASPECT-ORIENTED; COMPONENT BASED; COMPONENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT; COMPONENT-BASED IMPLEMENTATION; CROSSCUTTING FEATURES; DESIGN STABILITY; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; HYBRID APPROACH; HYBRID IMPLEMENTATION; MAINTENANCE COST; PRODUCT LINE ARCHITECTURE; PRODUCT-LINES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE; STABILITY EVALUATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING; STABILITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78751573995     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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