A quantitative evaluation of aspect-oriented software quality model (AOSQUAMO)

Abstract

Aspect-Oriented (AO) technology is a new paradigm and emerging field of software development. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) cleanly encapsulates crosscutting concerns which cannot be encapsulated or modularized by traditional programming approaches like Module-Oriented (MO) and Object-Oriented (OO). In order to evaluate quality of software systems, researchers and practitioners have proposed their software quality characteristics and models. As AO is a new abstraction, there is no dedicated software quality model, which can describe and include new features of AO technology. In this paper, a new Aspect-Oriented Software Quality Model (AOSQUAMO) has been proposed. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to evaluate quality of AO software systems as a single parameter. This proposed quality model further may be used to compare AO software systems which will help consumer to choose better quality software.