What is the main focus of the research in the area of aspect-oriented programming?

Although the main focus of research in the area of aspect-oriented programming language constructs is in the area of dynamic constructs (cf. e.g. [6, 15]) the authors reduce their view on aspectorientation to static elements because static join points can be unambiguously determined, i.e. it can be clearly stated where and how they appear in the code.

What is the reason why an InvalidGameStateException should be thrown?

In case one of the non-primitive parameters was null, an InvalidGameStateException should be thrown (the exception’s class definition was already part of the delivered application).

What is the main argument for using aspect-oriented programming?

In case aspectorientation turns out to reduce the pure coding time it strengthens the argument to use aspect-orientation (if it is assumed that the maintainability costs are also reduced).

What is the important insight in the study?

Although the experiment is just performed on a small number of subjects, it has some interesting insights, where the most important one is that no impact of aspect-oriented programming on software design modularity and size could be measured.

How long did it take to solve the logging task?

Table 1 shows that for example subject 1 required 4585 seconds to solve the logging task in the object-oriented way and 4941 seconds to solve it in the aspect-oriented way.

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Does aspect-oriented programming increase the development speed for crosscutting code? An empirical study

Stefan Hanenberg, +2 more

- 15 Oct 2009

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TL;DR: An experiment compares the development times of crosscutting concerns using traditional composition techniques and aspect-oriented composition techniques using the object-oriented programming language Java and the aspect- oriented programming language AspectJ to reveal opportunities and risks caused by aspect-orientation programming techniques in comparison to object- oriented ones.

Abstract: Aspect-oriented software development is an approach which addresses the construction of software artifacts that traditional software engineering constructs fail to modularize: the so-called crosscutting concerns. However, although aspect-orientation claims to permit a better modularization of crosscutting concerns, it is still not clear whether the development time for such crosscutting concerns is increased or decreased by the application of aspect-oriented techniques. This paper addresses this issue by an experiment which compares the development times of crosscutting concerns using traditional composition techniques and aspect-oriented composition techniques using the object-oriented programming language Java and the aspect-oriented programming language AspectJ. In that way, the experiment reveals opportunities and risks caused by aspect-oriented programming techniques in comparison to object-oriented ones.

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This paper addresses this issue by an experiment which compares the development times of crosscutting concerns using traditional composition techniques and aspect-oriented composition techniques using the object-oriented programming language Java and the aspect-oriented programming language AspectJ.

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It is up to future work to study how the dynamic language features influence the development time.

3. What is the possibility of using a two-factor ANOVA with repeated measurement?

Since their subjects fulfilled all tasks using bothlanguages, a possibility is to use a two-factor ANOVA with repeated measurement.

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One example for aspect-oriented techniques that is quite often cited in literature is logging (c.f. [4] among many others): invocations to the logger need to appear in a large number of modules.

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