Traits are basically mixins or interfaces but with method bodies. In languages that support traits, classes are composed out of traits. There are two main advantages with traits. ...
To realize the benefits of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), developers must refactor active and legacy code bases into an AOP language. When refactoring, developers first need...
David Shepherd, Jeffrey Palm, Lori L. Pollock, Mar...
In this paper we introduce a novel scheme for portable CPU accounting and control in Java, which is based on program transformation techniques at the bytecode level and can be use...
Conditioned slicing is a powerful generalisation of static and dynamic slicing which has applications to many problems in software maintenance and evolution, including re-use, ree...
Chris Fox, Mark Harman, Robert M. Hierons, Sebasti...
Many organisations are migrating towards object-oriented technology. However, owing to the business value of legacy software, new object-oriented development has to be weighed aga...
Aniello Cimitile, Andrea De Lucia, Giuseppe A. Di ...