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.