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Background and objectives
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by the appearance of seizures. Often, epilepsy patients are temporarily or permanently excluded from blood donation. To gain a better understanding of the policies that are currently applied, we performed a survey among blood services.
Methods
A cross‐sectional, Web‐based questionnaire using the online Questback...
During software development, design rules and contracts in the source code are often encoded through regularities, such as API usage protocols, coding idioms and naming conventions. The structural regularities that govern a program can aid in comprehension and maintenance of the application, but are often implicit or undocumented. Tool support for extracting these regularities from the source code...
Companies nowadays rely on outsourcing for the implementation of their software. While outsourcing can reduce the actual development costs for a piece of software, it can also reduce a company's control over the quality of the delivered software. In light of obtaining maintainable software, it is however important that the delivered software is well-structured and obeys the various design rules that...
Annotations are a means to attach additional meta data to the source code of a system. Nowadays, more and more technologies rely on the presence of such annotations in the source code: beyond their use for documentation purposes, annotations impact the behaviour of the system. Since there exists little or no support to make sure that upon evolution of the system, the source code remains correctly...
For any non-trivial software project, architectural drift is a well-known problem. Over time, the design rules and guidelines governing the software project are no longer obeyed, resulting in that the software becomes more difficult to maintain. While there exist numerous tools - such as code checkers, architecture and design checkers, and source code query languages - that aid in alleviating this...
The research domain of aspect mining studies the problem of (semi-)automatically identifying potential aspects and crosscutting concernsin a software system, to improve the system's comprehensibility or enable its migration to an aspect-oriented solution. Unfortunately,most proposed aspect mining techniques have not lived up to their expectations yet. In this paper we provide a list of problems thatmost...
This paper provides an experience report on the use of aspect-oriented technology as a means to modularize the implementation of business rules in an object-oriented, large scale case study. The goal of this refactoring of the system was to provide a proof-of-concept implementation of how such an aspect-oriented solution can improve the modularity and the extensibility of the business rule implementation...
The design and implementation of a software system is often governed by many different coding conventions, design patterns, architectural design rules, and other so-called structural regularities. To prevent a deterioration of the system's source code, it is important that these regularities are verified and enforced in subsequent evolutions of the system. The Intensional Views Environment (IntensiVE),...
As size and complexity of software systems increase, preserving the design and specification of their implementation structure gains importance in order to maintain the evolvability of the system. However, due to constant changes, the implementation structure and its documentation tend to dilute over time. To address this problem, we developed IntensiVE: a toolsuite for documenting and checking structural...
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