[aosd-discuss] Failure associated with crosscuts

[Andrew Carton]

There are many methodologies that attempt to provide support for
crosscutting concerns at the architectural level. Try looking through the
AOSD web site, in particular the workshops - there is loads of work being
done on early aspects!

Software can “fail” for many, many reasons. However, linking software
failure due to the lack of identification of crosscutting at the
architectural level is probably going to be tricky as there are factors
involved after that stage that can impact the final product. I guess this
is what you are trying to do?

One approach, if you wish to investigate it, may be to take a few case
studies, apply a standard OO process and see what the outcome is. Then do
the same taking a requirements / architectural / design / implementation
AO combo and compare. If you have good traceability you might be able to
discover how architectural crosscutting concerns impact software? Finding
the correct AO combo to use may be a problem. Maybe I haven’t looked hard
enough, but I’ve seen little to no work being done to provide an AO
software process that integrates the best of early aspects – which is
actually quite disappointing


Regards,
andrew

> Hi all,
>
> I am investigating the idea of software failure linked to the effects of
> crosscuts.
> As an architecture concern how do early aspects-analysis address this
> possibility?
> I have already produced a paper "Identifying Transverse Software Failures"
> that identifies the issue of crosscutting failure influences:
>
> DONISTHORPE, C. R., 2007. Identifying Transverse Software Failures. In:
> P. PLASSMAN, R. WILTSHIRE, et al. eds.  1st Research Student Workshop. 1
> ed. Glamorgan Business Centre, University of Glamorgan, Wales, United
> Kingdom: The Research Office, University of Glamorgan, Faculty of Advanced
> Technology, Pontypridd Mid Glamorgan, CF37 1DL
> ISBN 978-1-84054-156-4
>
> Can anyone suggest some useful text on this subject as I want to develop
> this theme further?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Charles
>
> Tel: 07899 844460
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