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Measuring Understandability of Aspect-Oriented Code

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Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications (DICTAP 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 167))

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Software maintainability is one of important factors that developers should concern because two-thirds of a software system’s lifetime-cost involve maintenance. Understandability is one of sub-characteristics that can describe software maintainability. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is an alternative software development paradigm that aims to increase understandability, adaptability, and reusability. It focuses on crosscutting concerns by introducing a modular unit, called “aspect”. Based on the definition of understandability that “the related attributes of software components that users have to put their effort on to recognizing the logical concept of the components”, this paper proposes seven metrics for evaluating understandability of aspect-oriented code using different levels of dependence graphs. The metrics are applied to two versions of aspect-oriented programs to give an illustration.

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, Thailand

    Mathupayas Thongmak

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    Pornsiri Muenchaisri

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  1. LE2I, UMR, CNRS 5158, Faculté des Sciences BP 47870, Mirande, 9 , avenue Alain Savary, 21078, DIJON, France

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  2. Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

    Jasni Mohamad Zain

  3. Information Systems Dept., Faculty of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, 11543, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Eyas El-Qawasmeh

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Thongmak, M., Muenchaisri, P. (2011). Measuring Understandability of Aspect-Oriented Code. In: Cherifi, H., Zain, J.M., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications. DICTAP 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22027-2_5

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