Detection of interaction among aspects using graphical notation

Aspect Interaction (AI) in Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) plays a crucial role in the stability of the developed product due to its impact in deciding how independently built software modules may cooperate and interact to deliver a service. The AI comes into play when the modules are woven together. We analyze some of the new graphical mechanisms that have a one-to-many map between the pointcut elements and the joinpoint elements in AOSD. We propose a modular approach that uses Critical Pair Analysis in the Graph Transformation (GT) to detect potential syntactic interaction among aspects in different graphical joinpoint models such as JPDD.