AORE/AOSD approaches for requirements and design crosscutting : a review

Abstract

AORE/AOSD aims at addressing crosscutting issues in order to improve separation of system components that leads to better understanding for maintenance and evolution process. Initially, these issues were discovered from the crosscutting behavior that initially evolves from the method at implementation stage. However, there are growing needs to achieve possible understanding in crosscutting throughout stages in software development recently. Due to its nature, crosscutting which relates to intersection or mapping of components such as scattering and tangling at various stages may lead to some ambiguities. The aim of this paper is to evaluate several recent crosscutting AORE/AOSD approaches published in literature with the focus on their contributions to requirements and design crosscutting. The evaluation shows some significant results in understanding the traceability and analysis of requirements and design crosscutting approaches as a basis for improvement to ensure homogeneity in crosscutting-oriented software development and evolution process.