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Towards a Unified Framework for Complexity Measurement in Aspect-Oriented Systems

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Towards a Unified Framework for Complexity Measurement in Aspect-Oriented Systems,"
by A. Kumar, R. Kumar, P.S. Grover
in the Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, vol.2, pp.98-103, Dec. 2008

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"Towards a Unified Coupling Framework for Measuring Aspect-oriented Programs"
by T.T. Bartolomei, A. Garcia, C. Sant'Anna, C., E. Figueiredo
in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance (Portland, Oregon, November 06 - 06, 2006). SOQUA '06. ACM

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is an emerging technique that provides a mechanism to clearly encapsulate and implement concerns that crosscut other modules. It is claimed that this technique improves code modularization and therefore reduce complexity of object-oriented programs (OOP). Most of the proposed complexity measurement frameworks and metrics for AOP are for AspectJ programming language. In this paper we have defined a generic complexity measurement framework that takes into account three, the most well known families of available AOP languages, AspectJ, CaesarJ and Hyper/J. The proposed unified framework contributes to better understanding of complexity in AOP, which in turn help to (i) define new complexity metrics whic- h permit the analysis and comparison of Java, AspectJ, CaesarJ and Hyper/J implementations, and (ii) integrating different existing measures and examine same concepts in different ways.