Assessment of reusability in aspect-oriented systems using fuzzy logic

Abstract

Reusability of the software systems is becoming a very important factor due to rapid software development and increasing complexity. Software reusability improves the quality of software product by reducing development time, effort and cost. Researchers have explored many methodologies in order to assess the reusability of Object-Oriented (OO) software systems but the assessment of the reusability of Aspect-Oriented (AO) software systems is underexplored. Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is an emerging paradigm that aims to modularize the crosscutting concerns in an application, which cannot be modularized using traditional procedure-oriented and object-oriented approaches. By applying an aspect-oriented approach, such concerns can be isolated resulting in the increase maintainability and reusability of the system. In this paper, we propose a reusability model for aspect-oriented systems and assess it using fuzzy logic technique.