On the Maintainability of Aspect-Oriented Software: A Concern-Oriented Measurement Framework

Aspect-oriented design needs to be systematically assessed with respect to modularity flaws caused by the realization of driving system concerns, such as tangling, scattering, and excessive concern dependencies. As a result, innovative concern metrics have been defined to support quantitative analyses of concern’s properties. However, the vast majority of these measures have not yet being theoretically validated and managed to get accepted in the academic or industrial settings. The core reason for this problem is the fact that they have not been built by using a clearly-defined terminology and criteria. This paper defines a concern-oriented framework that supports the instantiation and comparison of concern measures. The framework subsumes the definition of a core terminology and criteria in order to lay down a rigorous process to foster the definition of meaningful and well-founded concern measures. In order to evaluate the framework generality, we demonstrate the framework instan...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CSMR
• Authors: Eduardo Figueiredo, Cláudio Sant'Anna, Alessandro Garcia, Thiago T. Bartolomei, Walter Cazzola, Alessandro Marchetto
• Keywords: Concern Measures, CSMR 2008, Excessive Concern Dependencies, Innovative Concern Metrics, Software Engineering