Over the last few years, a growing number of studies have explored how Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) might impact software maintainability. Most of the studies use coupling metrics to assess the impact of AOP mechanisms on maintainability attributes such as design stability. Unfortunately, the use of such metrics is fraught with dangers, which have so far not been thoroughly investigated. T...

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...

This paper relates on a first attempt to see if aspect-oriented programming (AOP) can help with the revitalisation of legacy business software. By means of four realistic case studies covering reverse engineering, restructuring and integration, we discuss the applicability of the aspect-oriented paradigm in the context of two major programming languages for such environments: Cobol and C.

Aspect oriented programming is a way of reducing the complexity of software development, in the sense that it is easier to reason about isolated concepts. The complexity of web applications has been increasing in the last few years, mainly, because customers are requesting more and more. We think that advanced separation of concerns can be a good strategy to reduce the complexity of web applica...

When aspect-oriented modeling techniques are used in the context of Model-Driven Engineering, a possible way of obtaining an executable from an aspect-oriented model is to map it to code written in an aspect-oriented programming language. This paper presents important challenges that a modeler has to face when mapping aspect-oriented models to an aspect-oriented programming language: mapping st...