An Empirical Study on the Impact of Aspect-oriented Model-driven Code Generation

Over the years innovative approaches in software development have been proposed. Among the main approaches, we can highlight aspect-oriented software development. However, applying aspect-oriented software development is not simple, but may be facilitated by the model-driven development, mainly because it is possible to build models to drive consolidated aspect solutions. In this context, we analyzed the impact of aspect-oriented solutions created from a model-driven approach. To this end, a model-driven approach to create aspect-oriented code was proposed and an experiment focusing on data persistence was conducted. From data gathering, we empirically discuss the impact of the generated solutions compared to oriented-object solutions. Some code metrics were analyzed using quantitative analysis and the results show that the approach may help to reuse aspect-oriented solutions and improve the code quality and productivity.