Aspect Oriented Software Metrics-An Empirical Study

Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is an emerging paradigm that provides new mechanisms to support the modularization of concerns, which otherwise would crosscut the OO system decomposition. However, the accurate identification of concerns to be aspectized is far from being trivial and it requires a systematic design assessment and reasoning about multiple modularity principles. The achievement of high-quality aspect-oriented (AO) design is a daunting task. According to literature, the inaccurate modularization of crosscutting concerns with aspects leads to the violation of important design principles, such as low coupling, high cohesion, low module complexity, simple module interfaces etc.,. In this paper we provide a quantitative assessment of the AOSD and provide quality design metrics for evaluation of AOSD.