Towards a Domain-Oriented Approach for Identifying Aspects in Software Requirements ∗
Ehab Abdel Nasser, Haitham S. Hamza · 2010
A major challenge in Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is the discovery and modeling of aspects in the early phases of requirements and analysis. The quality of the discovered early aspects using most existing techniques is as good as the input provided to these techniques. As such, it is difficult to conclude that one approach or another can effectively identify aspects in a given set of requirements. In this paper, a new approach for discovering early aspects in requirements is proposed. The proposed approach complements existing ones by providing a mechanism to iteratively understand and analyze the problem domain in order to discover relevant and meaningful candidate aspects. The proposed approach is presented and demonstrated through a case study. Results obtained from the proposed approach are compared to those obtained from the well-known Theme/Doc approach. A tool that supports the proposed approach is implemented and outlined as well.