Representing Aspects in Design

Aspect-oriented programming is providing a new way of handling cross-cutting concerns (also known as aspects) in a modularized way. A number of languages, such as AspectJ, Spring, and AspectWorkz, have been developed to weave modularized aspects with the base program. Similarly a lot of research has been conducted to improve the composition of aspect models with the primary model. Although these suggested approaches have improved the implementation of aspect, this paradigm is still lacking aspect representation in the earlier phases of software development. Our proposed aspect model addresses this problem and suggests a process-modeling approach for identifying and representing aspects throughout the life cycle of system development.