Calling contexts are very important for a wide range of applications such as profiling,
debugging, and event logging. Most applications perform expensive stack walking to …

Modern IDEs such as Eclipse offer static views of the source code, but such views ignore
information about the runtime behavior of software systems. Since typical object-oriented …

Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly
by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any …

Dynamic aspect-oriented programming (AOP) enables runtime adaptation of aspects, which
is important for building sophisticated, aspect-based software engineering tools, such as …

Bytecode instrumentation is a widely used technique to implement aspect weaving and
dynamic analyses in virtual machines such as the Java Virtual Machine. Aspect weavers …

In most aspects, advice are synchronously executed by application threads, which may
cause high overhead if advice execution is frequent or computationally expensive. When …

Many profilers for virtual execution environments, such as the Java virtual machine (JVM),
are implemented with low‐level bytecode instrumentation techniques, which is tedious, error …

Developing tools for profiling, debugging, testing, and reverse engineering is error-prone,
time-consuming, and therefore costly when using low-level techniques, such as bytecode …

Dynamic updates to running programs improve development productivity and reduce
downtime of long-running applications. This feature is however severely limited in current …

Aspect-oriented programming provides a convenient high-level model to define several
kinds of dynamic analyses, in particular thanks to recent advances in exhaustive weaving in …