IBM plans to bring a software development technique that has been the subject of theoretical work for years to commercial products this year and next. Daniel Sabbah, IBM's vice president of software ...

Early aspects focus on the problem domain, representing the goals and constraints of users, customers and other constituencies affected by a software intensive system. However, analysis of early ...

Modularization makes programming possible. Throughout the history of computing, a parade of organizational devices—the high-level language, the subroutine, the object—has allowed us to write ...

Big Blue plans to bring aspect orientation, a technique that has been the subject of theoretical work for years, to commercial products this year and next. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...