Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...
Abstract. One of the costs of reusing software components is updating applications to use the new version of the components. Updating an application can be error-prone, tedious, an...
Danny Dig, Can Comertoglu, Darko Marinov, Ralph E....
Moving program code that implements cross-cutting concerns into aspects can improve the maintainability of legacy systems. This kind of refactoring, called aspectualization, can a...
—In the multicore era, a major programming task will be to make programs more parallel. This is tedious because it requires changing many lines of code, and it is error-prone and...
In this paper we present aspect-oriented programming laws that are useful for deriving refactorings for AspectJ. The laws help developers to verify if the transformations they deï...