Summary: Will Aspect-oriented Programming
Improve Software Quality?
Roger T. Alexander
James M. Bieman
Colorado State University
Department of Computer Science
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
{rta,bieman}@cs.colostate.edu
What are Aspects?
· Cross cutting concerns
­ Behavioral elements that span primary abstractions
­ Examples: logging, pre/post condition checking,
security
· Written as a modular abstraction
­ As language construct
· Languages that support aspects:
­ AspectJ
­ HyperJ
­ Others
*Key Ideas

Source: Alexander, Roger T. - Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences