Aspects, dependencies, and interactions - Report on the WS ADI at ECOOP'06

For Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) the topic of Aspects, Dependencies and Interactions is of high importance across the whole range of development activities - from requirements engineering through to language design. Aspect interactions must be adequately addressed all across the software lifecycle if AOSD is to succeed as a paradigm. Thus, this topic must be tackled by the AOSD community as a whole. This first workshop, initiated by AOSD-Europe project, aimed to establish a dedicated forum for discussion of this vital topic and to attract both researchers and practitioners currently engaged with related issues. The workshop has succeeded in initiating a broad community-wide discussion of this topic and has provided an initial overview of perspectives on the state of the art as well as of outstanding issues in this area.