Analysis of Software Quality Attributes Through Aspect-Oriented Programming

Design and development of software is difficult task due to the changing requirements of usres. To develop good quality software, our main focus is on analysis of quality attributes according to the users’ requirement, but it increases the complexity. So it’s a complex task to establish a relationship between users’ requirements and quality attributes due to the frequent change in requirements. However, we do not have systematic approaches to design software considering quality attributes and requirements. Throughout the history of software development, new development approches were developed to deal with the chaninging requiremens and ever-growing complexity of software. The object-oriented paradigm approach allows programmers to decompose high level requirements into a set of functional modules. The problem is that Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) does not offer a systematic and elegant way to recompose those modules to maintain the the quality by ensuring the modular continuity. This problem of OOP gave birth to a new paradigm: the Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). AOP approach is used to modularize the crosscutting concern and provide better analysis of quality attributes like performance, reliability, availability, reusability, testability modularization and maintainability as compare to OOP in the form of aspects. This paper presents modified analysis process in which designer and developer can separate the aspects related to quality attributes by using AOP and get feedbacks to improve the quality attributes by providing a modularization way to separate crosscutting concerns from noncrosscutting ones. This helps in developing software product more efficiently. Index Terms – Object, aspect, analysis, quality attributes, aspect-oriented programming, class, concern, analysis process. —————————— ——————————