Applying object-oriented metrics to Ada 95
ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
On assessing the complexity of software architectures
ISAW '98 Proceedings of the third international workshop on Software architecture
A Hierarchical Model for Object-Oriented Design Quality Assessment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Extending UML with Aspects: Aspect Support in the Design Phase
Proceedings of the Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology
Software Structure Metrics Based on Information Flow
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
DG-metrics formulization for DGML-based software design
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Software metrics provide a means for software practitioners to assess the quality of their software. Ideally, this information should be available earlier in the software development lifecycle, since changes are much more expensive to incorporate in the later stages. Design level metrics offer an elegant way of capturing this information. Research in software design metrics has focused primarily on procedural and object oriented software. However, such metrics are currently not available for Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD), which is an emerging paradigm. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is an approach that allows programmers to modularize crosscutting concerns that are scattered across multiple modules. Separation of concerns through aspects has the advantages of increased reliability, adaptability and better reuse. The objective of this paper is to propose suitable metrics for the Aspect Oriented Design (AOD) and to develop a tool that will automatically select a better design based on the proposed metrics. In this paper, class and sequence diagrams are used to represent an AOD. The proposed design level metrics are applied to two alternative designs of an illustrative case study. The tool selects the design that better suits stakeholder requirements, based on logical inferences obtained from these metrics regarding the quality of the Aspect Oriented software.