A two-aspect approach for a clearer behavior model

Moving from code-oriented to model-oriented development facilitates significantly management of increasingly complex software. As explained in [1], clear separation of concerns during application development can drastically increase maintainability, reusability and complexity management. Although existing UML-based approaches for real-time systems development do help speed up software development, they still result in models that are hard to maintain and reuse. This drawback is mainly due to a failure to apply the principles of separating concerns. This paper presents an UML-based method using Aspect Principles and dedicated to the development of real-time embedded systems. It focuses mainly on how suitable separation of concerns may ease reusability and maintainability. Specifically, it depicts how application behavior can be clearly modeled applying separation of control and computation aspects of behavior in UML.