Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability

Software development teams always need methods that can help in producing high-quality software with reduced development effort and delivery time. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) as well as Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques help in reducing the delivery time, and also positively...

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Main Author:	Mehmood, Abid
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	QA75 Electronic computers Computer science
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spelling	my-utm-ep.777852018-07-04T11:47:51Z Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability 2014-05 Mehmood, Abid QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Software development teams always need methods that can help in producing high-quality software with reduced development effort and delivery time. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) as well as Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques help in reducing the delivery time, and also positively contribute to quality of the produced software. Through the use of AOSD techniques in combination with MDE, an integration of excellent abstraction mechanisms of MDE and capabilities of AOSD with regards to modularity and composition of concerns can be perceived, which is expected to enhance the positive effects of both techniques. To this end, different integration approaches have appeared in literature, but aspect-oriented code generation has advantages over the other approaches. Consequently, a number of aspect-oriented code generation approaches have been offered, but all such approaches lack several features mandatory to materialize a workable integration of aspect technologies in the context of MDE. To address these issues, this research was conducted to present an approach for aspect-oriented model-driven code generation, which focuses on elaborating the conceptual relationship between design models and the implementation code, and exploits the same to obtain aspect-oriented code that is more reusable and maintainable. The key outcomes of this research are the elaboration of the conceptual mappings between elements of visual design and constructs of the code, mapping of the visual models to implementation-specific text-based models, and a technique for generation of aspect-oriented code. The applicability of the proposed approach is shown by the use of case studies, whereas the quality of the approach is measured using reusability and maintainability metrics. A comparison of the proposed approach with existing approaches substantiates its efficacy in terms of reusability and maintainability of code, showing an outperformance of other approaches by the proposed approach against 78% of the employed quality metrics. 2014-05 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/77785/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/77785/1/AbidMehmoodPFC2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:97990 phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
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spellingShingle	QA75 Electronic computers Computer science Mehmood, Abid Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability
description	Software development teams always need methods that can help in producing high-quality software with reduced development effort and delivery time. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) as well as Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques help in reducing the delivery time, and also positively contribute to quality of the produced software. Through the use of AOSD techniques in combination with MDE, an integration of excellent abstraction mechanisms of MDE and capabilities of AOSD with regards to modularity and composition of concerns can be perceived, which is expected to enhance the positive effects of both techniques. To this end, different integration approaches have appeared in literature, but aspect-oriented code generation has advantages over the other approaches. Consequently, a number of aspect-oriented code generation approaches have been offered, but all such approaches lack several features mandatory to materialize a workable integration of aspect technologies in the context of MDE. To address these issues, this research was conducted to present an approach for aspect-oriented model-driven code generation, which focuses on elaborating the conceptual relationship between design models and the implementation code, and exploits the same to obtain aspect-oriented code that is more reusable and maintainable. The key outcomes of this research are the elaboration of the conceptual mappings between elements of visual design and constructs of the code, mapping of the visual models to implementation-specific text-based models, and a technique for generation of aspect-oriented code. The applicability of the proposed approach is shown by the use of case studies, whereas the quality of the approach is measured using reusability and maintainability metrics. A comparison of the proposed approach with existing approaches substantiates its efficacy in terms of reusability and maintainability of code, showing an outperformance of other approaches by the proposed approach against 78% of the employed quality metrics.
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author	Mehmood, Abid
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title	Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability
title_short	Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability
title_full	Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability
title_fullStr	Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability
title_full_unstemmed	Aspect-oriented model-driven code generation approach for improving code reusability and maintainability
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
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