Reusability in AOSD - The aptness, assessment and analysis

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is an emerging technique that has profound impact in the area of software development. AOP aims to ease maintenance and promotes reuse of software components by providing mechanism for implementing cross-cutting concerns. Examples of cross-cutting concerns are readability, security etc. Reusability is the cost of transferring a module or program to another application. It is the most important criteria for the evaluation of software system. A reusable component will help in better understandability and low maintenance efforts for the application. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate reusability of the component, before integrating it into the system. In the present study, our focus is on those AO languages that have features of Java and AO technology. In this category, we have selected the Aspect AOP language. The MATLAB and Fuzzy logic approach have been used for the assessment of reusability in Aspect-Oriented Systems.