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Modularizing design patterns with aspects: a quantitative study

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Alessandro Garcia,

Cláudio Sant'Anna,

Eduardo Figueiredo,

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AOSD '05: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1052898.1052899

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Design patterns offer flexible solutions to common problems in software development. Recent studies have shown that several design patterns involve crosscutting concerns. Unfortunately, object-oriented (OO) abstractions are often not able to modularize those crosscutting concerns, which in turn decrease the system reusability and maintainability. Hence, it is important verifying whether aspect-oriented approaches support improved modularization of crosscutting concerns relative to design patterns. Ideally, quantitative studies should be performed to compare OO and aspect-oriented implementations of classical patterns with respect to important software engineering attributes, such as coupling and cohesion. This paper presents a quantitative study that compares aspect-based and OO solutions for the 23 Gang-of-Four patterns. We have used stringent software engineering attributes as the assessment criteria. We have found that most aspect-oriented solutions improve separation of pattern-related concerns, although only 4 aspect-oriented implementations have exhibited significant reuse.

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