On the Impact of Aspect-Oriented Programming on Object-Oriented Metrics

Abstract. Aspect-oriented programming is a new paradigm designed to fulfill the limitations of object-oriented programming regarding separation of concerns. The advent of a new paradigm requires software engineers to define new metrics and quality models to measure the quality of programs in this paradigm. The close relationship of aspect-oriented programming and object-oriented languages drives us to wonder about the impact of this new paradigm over object-oriented languages, and especially over object metrics. In this position paper, we attempt to present an approach to study and to understand the impact of aspect-oriented programming on object-oriented metrics.