MAINTAINABILITY AND REUSABILITY OF ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE: AN ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK / MANUTENIBILIDADE E REUSABILIDADE DE SOFTWARE ORIENTADO A ASPECTOS: UM FRAMEWORK DE AVALIAÇÃO

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2004

RESUMO

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is gaining wide attention both in research environments and in industry. Aspect- oriented systems encompass new software engineering abstractions and different complexity dimensions. As a consequence, AOSD poses new problems to empirical software engineering. It requires new assessment mechanisms to measure the maintainability and reusability degrees of aspect-oriented systems. This dissertation presents an assessment framework for AOSD, which is composed of two components: a suite of metrics and a quality model. These components are based on well-known principles and existing metrics in order to avoid the reinvention of well-tested solutions. The proposed framework has been evaluated in the context of two different empirical studies with different characteristics, diverse domains, varying control levels and different complexity degrees. The first study compared an object-oriented approach and an aspect-oriented approach to the design and implementation of a multi-agent system. The second study involved the application of the proposed framework to evaluate Java and AspectJ implementations of the GoF design patterns.

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software metrics empirical software engineering modelo de qualidade metricas de software quality model engenharia de software experimental padroes de projeto design patterns

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