Brice Morin, Gilles Vanwormhoudt, Philippe Lahire, Alban Gaignard, Olivier Barais, and Jean-Marc Jézéquel (2008)
Managing Variability Complexity in Aspect-Oriented Modeling
In: MODELS'08: Proceedings of ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, vol. 5301, pp. 797-812, LNCS.
Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) approaches propose to model reusable aspects that can be composed in dierent systems at a model level. To improve the reusability, several contributions have pointed out the needs of variability in the AOM approaches. Nevertheless, the support of variability makes more complex the aspect design and the introduction
of several dimensions of variability (advice, pointcut and weaving) creates a combinatorial explosion of variants and a risk of inconsistency in the aspect model. As the integration of an aspect model may be complex, it is essential that the AOM framework ensures the consistency of the resulting model. This paper presents an approach describing how to ensure
that an aspect model with variability can be safely integrated into an existing model. The verications include static checking of aspect models consistency and dynamic checking through testing with a focus on the parts of the model that are impacted by the aspect.