Is aspect-oriented programming a rewarding investment into future code changes? A socio-technical study on development and maintenance time

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 51-60

  Endrikat, Stefan ^a   Hanenberg, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspect Oriented Programming; Empirical Studies; Human Aspects

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-J; ASPECT-ORIENTED; CODE CHANGES; DEVELOPMENT TIME; EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HUMAN ASPECTS; MAINTENANCE TIME; SOCIO-TECHNICAL STUDIES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTS; MAINTENANCE;

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80052421728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2011.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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