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Program and Aspect Metrics for MATLAB

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In this paper we present the main concepts of a domain-specific aspect language for specifying cross-cutting concerns of MATLAB programs, together with a suite of metrics that is capable of assessing the overall advantage of introducing aspects in the development cycle of MATLAB software. We present the results of using our own suite to quantify the advantages of using aspect oriented programming, both in terms of programming effort and code quality. The results are promising and show a good potential for aspect oriented programming in MATLAB while our suite proves to be capable of analyzing the overall characteristics of MATLAB solutions and providing interesting results about them.

This work is funded by the ERDF through the Programme COMPETE and by the Portuguese Government through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, projects ref. PTDC/EIA/70271/2006 and PTDC/EIA-CCO/108995/2008. The first and third authors were also supported by FCT grants BI3-2011/PTDC/EIA/70271/2006 and SFRH/BPD/46987/2008, respectively.

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    Pedro Martins, Paulo Lopes, João P. Fernandes & João Saraiva

  2. Faculdade de Engenharia, Departamento de Eng. Informatica, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    João P. Fernandes & João M. P. Cardoso

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Martins, P., Lopes, P., Fernandes, J.P., Saraiva, J., Cardoso, J.M.P. (2012). Program and Aspect Metrics for MATLAB . In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012. ICCSA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31128-4_16

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