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Theme:
An Approach for Aspect-Oriented Analysis and Design
Elisa L.A. Baniassad and Siobhan Clarke.
ICSE 2004.
Aspects are behaviours that are tangled and scattered
across a system. In requirements documentation, aspects
manifest themselves as descriptions of behaviours that are
intertwined, and woven throughout. Some aspects may be
obvious, as specifications of typical crosscutting behaviour.
Others may be more subtle, making them hard to identify. In
either case, it is difficult to analyse requirements to locate
all points in the system where aspects should be applied.
These issues lead to problems achieving traceability of aspects
throughout the development lifecycle. To identify aspects
early in the software lifecycle, and establish sufficient
traceability, developers need support for aspect identification
and analysis in requirements documentation. To address
this, we have devised the Theme approach for viewing
the relationships between behaviours in a requirements document,
identifying and isolating aspects in the requirements,
and modelling those aspects using a design language. This
paper describes the approach, and illustrates it with a case
study and analysis.
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