Effective methods for metrics definition are of particular importance, as measurement mechanisms are indispensable in virtually any engineering discipline. The paper describes how ...
Annotations are often mentioned as a potential alternative to tackle the fragile nature of AspectJ pointcuts. However, annotations themselves can be considered crosscutting elemen...
Leonardo Silva, Samuel Domingues, Marco Tulio de O...
Programming languages provide various mechanisms to support information hiding. One problem with information hiding, however, is that providing a stable interface behind which to ...
The formal description technique RT-LOTOS has been selected as intermediate language to add formality to a real-time UML profile named TURTLE. For this sake, an RT-LOTOS verificat...
Tarek Sadani, Pierre de Saqui-Sannes, Jean-Pierre ...
We propose a meta-framework called ‘Plastik’ which i) supports the specification and creation of runtime component-framework-based software systems and ii) facilitates and mana...