Context: To find the best sequence of refactorings to be applied in a software artifact is an
optimization problem that can be solved using search techniques, in the field called Search …

The idea for this book arose from a series of lectures on modern programming paradigms,
feature-oriented programming, and software product lines that are continuously held at the …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

Software product lines aim to create highly configurable programs from a set of features.
Common belief and recent studies suggest that aspects are well-suited for implementing …

In this paper, we present a collection of aspect-oriented refactorings covering both the
extraction of aspects from object-oriented legacy code and the subsequent tidying up of the …

Bedingte Kompilierung ist ein einfaches und häufig benutztes Mittel zur Implementierung
von Variabilität in Softwareproduktlinien, welches aber aufgrund negativer Auswirkungen …

We report upon an initial experiment using the technique of formal concept analysis for
mining aspectual views from the source code. An aspectual view is a set of source code …

Descriptive names are crucial to understand code. However, good names are notoriously
hard to choose and manually changing a globally visible name can be a maintenance …

Improving the structure of code can help developers work with a software system more
efficiently and more consistently. To aid developers in re-structuring the implementation of …

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) provides mechanisms for the separation of crosscutting
concerns-functionalities scattered through the system and tangled with the base code …