Aspect Oriented Software metrics based maintainability assessment: Framework and model

This paper emphasize on a new framework to access the Aspect Oriented Software's (AOS) using software metrics. Software metrics for the qualitative and quantitative assessment is the combination of static and dynamic metrics for software's. It is found from the literature survey that till date most the framework only considered the static metrics based assessment for aspect oriented software's. In our work we have mainly considered the set of static metrics along with dynamic software metrics specific to AspectJ. This framework may provide a new research direction while predicting the software attributes because earlier dynamic metrics were neglected while evaluating the quality attributes like maintainability, reliability, understandability for AO software's. Based on basic fundamentals of software engineering dynamic metrics are equally important as well as static metrics for software analysis. A similar concept is borrowed to apply on aspect oriented software development by adding dynamic software metrics. Presently we have only proposed a framework and model using the static and dynamic metrics for the assessment of aspect oriented system but still the proposed approach need to be validated.