Aspect oriented programs: Issues and perspective

Abstract

Aspect oriented programming (AOP) helps programmers for separating crosscutting concerns. All programming methodologies support split up and encapsulation of concerns. In object-oriented programming (OOP) crosscutting aspects are distributed among objects. It is hard to attain crosscutting in OOP as it is scattered in different objects. In AOP crosscutting concerns are addressed using one entity called aspect. This paper discusses varieties of existing slicing techniques of AOP. Also, we discuss a novel method to calculate dynamic slice of AOP. To represent AOP Aspect Oriented System Dependence Graph (AOSDG) is used. The complexity of this new approach is equal or improved as related to certain prevailing approaches. Keywords: Aspect, AOP, Slicing, Crosscutting, AOSDG