An Empirical Study of Maintainability in Aspect-Oriented System Evolution Using Coupling Metrics

In this paper, we propose a fine-grained coupling metrics suite for aspect-oriented (AO) systems, to measure software changes during system evolution. We also present a correlation model in terms of intermediate processes, for better evaluating the relation between coupling metrics and system mainta...

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Main Authors: Haihao Shen, Sai Zhang, Jianjun Zhao
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Aspect-Oriented System
Coupling Metrics
Empirical Study
Maintainability
Object oriented modeling
Object oriented programming
Performance analysis
Software engineering
Software maintenance
Software measurement
Software quality
Software systems
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Summary:In this paper, we propose a fine-grained coupling metrics suite for aspect-oriented (AO) systems, to measure software changes during system evolution. We also present a correlation model in terms of intermediate processes, for better evaluating the relation between coupling metrics and system maintainability. To investigate the practicability of our proposed model, we have implemented a coupling metrics analysis tool called AJMetrics and performed an empirical study on eight AspectJ benchmarks. The experiment result suggests that our correlation model provides useful information to evaluate the maintainability of AO systems.
DOI:10.1109/TASE.2008.17