All software systems are subject to evolution, independently by the developing technique. Aspect oriented software in addition to separate the different concerns during the software development, must be “not fragile” against software evolution. Otherwise, the benefit of disentangling the code will be burred by the extra complication in maintaining the code. To obtain this goal, the aspect-orien...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) offers new insights and tools for the modular development of systems with cross-cutting features. Current tool support for AOSD is provided mainly in the form of code-level constructs. This paper presents a way to express cross-cutting features as logical invariants and to use generative techniques to produce the kind of code that is usually written m...

Aspect-oriented software development still lacks practical evidence. While aspects are claimed to be useful in adapting existing applications there is also first evidence that they might themselves be re-usable. We present results from two case studies with the aspect-oriented programming language ObjectTeams/Java that investigate the re-usability of aspects in developing a security framework. ...

Object oriented software measurement has been given a foundational, theoretical basis by the research of Chidamber and Kemerer, partly based on Wand and Weber’s interpretation of the ontology of Bunge. Aspect oriented software development lacks such a sound theoretical basis, with the result that there is some confusion over what constitutes an aspect and how best to measure and assess the prop...

This position paper investigates the possibilities of separation, modularization and reuse offered by aspect-orientation, concentrating not on the technical or syntactic problems, but on the inherent issues resulting from interaspect dependencies. An aspect is defined based on the services it provides, on the services it requires and on the services it removes from other aspects. A classificati...

These variability concerns affect both the service interface and the service provider implementation and hence are crosscutting in nature. In this paper, we use principles of aspect-oriented software development to modularize these variability concerns. We also provide an aspect specification scheme to specify these concerns. We propose an approach to create heavyweight service variants centere...

Metrics are an important technique in quantifying desirable software and software development characteristics of aspect oriented software development (AOSD). We give an overview on the necessary steps to validate definitions and applications of metrics. We also compare definitions for proposed metrics.In this paper, we emphasis that the OO software development quality metrics were significantly...

The aspect-oriented programming approach is supposed to enhance a system’s features, such as its modularity, readability and simplicity. Due to a better modularization of crosscutting concerns, the developed system implementation would be less complex, and more readable. Thus software development efficiency would increase, so the system would be created faster than its object-oriented equivalen...

Aspect-oriented programming promises support for incremental program development by providing new means for modularization of crosscutting code. In this paper, we briefly introduce a general model for aspect-oriented programming, Event-Based AOP (first introduced in [DMS01a]), which is based on monitoring of execution events. This model extends previous approaches by enabling the systematic tre...