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Singapore Management University

2006

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Effect Of Changing Requirements: A Tracking Mechanism For The Analysis Workflow, Subhajit Datta, Robert Van Engelen Apr 2006

Effect Of Changing Requirements: A Tracking Mechanism For The Analysis Workflow, Subhajit Datta, Robert Van Engelen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Managing the effects of changing requirements remains one of the greatest challenges of enterprise software development. The iterative and incremental model provides an expedient framework for addressing such concerns. This paper presents a set of metrics - Mutation Index, Component Set, Dependency Index - and a methodology to measure the effects of requirement changes in the analysis workflow from one iteration to another. Results from a sample case study are included to highlight a usage scenario. Future directions of our work based on this mechanism are also discussed.


Crosscutting Score: An Indicator Metric For Aspect Orientation, Subhajit Datta Mar 2006

Crosscutting Score: An Indicator Metric For Aspect Orientation, Subhajit Datta

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) provides powerful techniques for modeling and implementing enterprise software systems. To leverage its full potential, AOP needs to be perceived in the context of existing methodologies such as Object Oriented Programming (OOP). This paper addresses an important question for AOP practitioners - how to decide whether a component is best modeled as a class or an aspect? Towards that end, we present an indicator metric, the Crosscutting Score and a method for its calculation and interpretation. We will illustrate our approach through a sample calculation.