Modeling Aspect-Oriented Programming with UML Profile

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), which allows for modularizing concerns that normally cause crosscutting in object oriented (OO) systems, has effectively solved the problem that the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has encountered such as the scattered codes and tangled codes resulting from the cross-cutting concerns. At present, the AOP paradigm has expanded to all the lifecycle of the software development, as a result, Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is becoming a new technique, which has an important step of modeling the aspects. Modeling aspects is a hot topic these days, however, there is no uniform modeling technique to support this new method. Since the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an extensible modeling language to facilitate domain specific modeling. At this paper, we use the extension mechanisms provided by the UML to model the aspects of a system to improve the stations of AOP in the software development.