On the impact of crosscutting concern projection on code measurement
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Concern-based cohesion as change proneness indicator: an initial empirical study
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics
A quantitative assessment of aspectual feature modules for evolving software product lines
SBLP'12 Proceedings of the 16th Brazilian conference on Programming Languages
The crosscutting impact of the AOSD Brazilian research community
Journal of Systems and Software
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Empirical studies have stressed that aspect-oriented decompositions can cause non-obvious flaws in the modularity of certain design concerns. Without proper design evaluation mechanisms, the identification of these flaws can become counter-productive and impractical. Nowadays, modularity assessment is mostly supported by metric-based heuristics rooted at conventional attributes, such as module cohesion and coupling. However, such conventional module-driven assessment cannot be tailored to the design concerns. This paper proposes and systematically evaluates a representative suite of concern-sensitive heuristic rules. The accuracy of the heuristics is assessed through their application to six systems. The analysis was based on the heuristics support for: (i) addressing the shortcomings of conventional metrics-based assessments, (ii) reducing the manifestation of false positives and false negatives, and (iii) finding the presence of design flaws relative to both classes and aspects.