One of the main promises of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is to promote improved
modularization of crosscutting concerns, thereby enhancing the software stability in the …

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is commonly assumed to be a technique which
improves the resulting software with respect to modularity. However, previous empirical …

Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to
promote better software changeability than object-oriented (OO) techniques, there is no …

Aspect-oriented software development is an approach which addresses the construction of
software artifacts that traditional software engineering constructs fail to modularize: the so …

Separation of concerns and modularization are the cornerstones of software engineering.
However, when a system is decomposed into units, functionalities often emerge which …

The application of refactorings during an object-oriented development process improves the
design and therefore the quality of software. Aspectorientation is a new programming …

Refactoring software to apply aspect oriented solutions requires a clear understanding of
what are the potential crosscutting concerns and which aspect solutions to replace them …

This paper presents a human-guided automated approach to refactoring object oriented
programs to the aspect oriented paradigm. The approach is based upon the iterative …

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study on the fault-proneness of aspect-
oriented programs. We analysed the faults collected from three evolving aspect-oriented …

Coupling in software applications is often used as an indicator of external quality attributes
such as fault-proneness. In fact, the correlation of coupling metrics and faults in object …