Scenario based resolution of aspect interactions with aspect interaction charts
Shubhanan Bakre, Tzilla Elrad · 2007
Introduction of aspects into the system raises the level of separation of concerns within the system. At the same time it also raises the level of interactions among the various components and features within the system. Current modeling techniques(sequence diagrams, live sequence charts) are inadequate in handling this added level of interaction. A higher level of abstraction is needed in order to capture the interactions among aspects/features/core and provides two immediate benefits - better modularization of the requirements, and better adaptability for the resulting model. We propose the Aspect Interaction Charts (AIC) that build on top of the Live Sequence Charts (LSC) [3] in order to capture the interactions among various aspects at joinpoints. With the AIC we foresee the ability to capture aspect interactions at a joinpoint in a common specification in the form of use-case scenarios, and the ability to execute these scenarios while non-invasively manipulating the interactions among the various aspects. In addition to the aforementioned benefits, we plan on leveraging the tools that come with the LSC language, i.e. the Play Engine. The AIC would provide us with the ability to model, view and manipulate aspect interactions at joinpoints.