CONTEXT: Model-driven code generation is being increasingly applied to enhance software
development from perspectives of maintainability, extensibility and reusability. However …

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 …

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

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 …

After more than 10 years, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is still a controversial idea.
While the concept of aspects appeals to everyone's intuitions, concrete AOP solutions often …

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 …

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 …

Single-language runtime systems, in the form of Java virtual machines, are widely deployed
platforms for executing untrusted mobile code. These runtimes provide some of the features …

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 …

An architectural aspect is a concern that cuts across architecture modularity units and cannot
be effectively modularized using the given abstractions of conventional Architecture …