Software product lines (SPLs) enable modular, large-scale reuse through a software
architecture addressing multiple core and varying features. To reap the benefits of SPLs …

There is a growing consensus that crosscutting concerns harm code quality. An example of
a crosscutting concern is a functional requirement whose implementation is distributed …

Although Web services are becoming business-critical components, they are often deployed
with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners …

Code smells refer to any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a
deeper problem, hindering software maintenance and evolution. Detection of code smells is …

As software systems are maintained, their architecture modularity often degrades through
architectural erosion and drift. More directly, however, the modularity of software …

The longevity of evolving software systems largely depends on their resilience to
architectural design degradation. It is often assumed that code anomalies are always key …

Exception handling mechanisms are intended to support the development of robust
software. However, the implementation of such mechanisms with aspect-oriented (AO) …

A domain-specific language (DSL) aims to support software development by offering
abstractions to a particular domain. It is expected that DSLs improve the maintainability of …

Code smells are anomalies often caused by the way concerns are realized in the source
code. Their identification might depend on properties governing the structure of individual …

Over the last few years, a growing number of studies have explored how Aspect-Oriented
Programming (AOP) might impact software maintainability. Most of the studies use coupling …