On the Contributions of an End-to-End AOSD Testbed

Greenwood, Phil and Garcia, Alessandro and Rashid, Awais and Figueiredo, Eduardo and Sant'Anna, Claudio and Cacho, Nelio and Sampaio, Americo and Soares, Sergio and Borba, Paulo and Dosea, Marcos and Ramos, Ricardo and Kulesza, Uira and Bartolomei, Thiago and Pinto, Monica and Fuentes, Lidia and Gamez, Nadia and Moreira, Ana and Araujo, Joao and Batista, Thais and Medeiros, Ana and Dantas, Francisco and Fernandes, Lyrene and Wloka, Jan and Chavez, Christina and France, Robert and Brito, Isabel (2007) On the Contributions of an End-to-End AOSD Testbed. In: Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design, 2007. Early Aspects at ICSE: Workshops in. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, p. 8. ISBN 0-7695-2957-7

Abstract

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques are gaining increased attention from both academic and industrial organisations. In order to promote a smooth adoption of such techniques it is of paramount importance to perform empirical analysis of AOSD to gather a better understanding of its benefits and limitations. In addition, the effects of aspect-oriented (AO) mechanisms on the entire development process need to be better assessed rather than just analysing each development phase in isolation. As such, this paper outlines our initial effort on the design of a testbed that will provide end-to-end systematic comparison of AOSD techniques with other mainstream modularisation techniques. This will allow the proponents of AO and non- AO techniques to compare their approaches in a consistent manner. The testbed is currently composed of: (i) a benchmark application, (ii) an initial set of metrics suite to assess certain internal and external software attributes, and (in) a "repository" of artifacts derived from AOSD approaches that are assessed based on the application of (i) and (ii). This paper mainly documents a selection of techniques that will be initially applied to the benchmark. We also discuss the expected initial outcomes such a testbed will feed back to the compared techniques. The applications of these techniques are contributions from different research groups working on AOSD.