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When Aspect-Orientation Meets Software Product Line Engineering

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Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) and software product line engineering (SPLE) are two approaches for software reuse, which promote model-driven development and variability management. While AOSD supports developing crosscutting concerns separately from traditional units and weaving them to different software products, software product line engineering (SPLE) handles the development and maintenance of families of software products utilizing different domain and application engineering techniques. In this chapter, we review the existing points of synergy between these two approaches and, in particular, the complementary and aggregative use of these approaches. Furthermore, we present a method that uses aspect-oriented principles for horizontal reuse and domain engineering guidelines for vertical reuse. We term this kind of use dimensional synergy. The presented method supports defining families of aspects and their weaving rules applied to families of software products, potentially increasing the reuse throughout the entire development life cycle. We exemplify the method on a Check-In check-Out product line and a family of security aspects, utilizing UML 2 class and sequence diagrams.

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    A few methods can be classified as both, e.g., [21]. However, these methods usually focus on one of these paradigms and extend the methods towards the other.

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    ADOM actually includes a sixth stereotype, «reuse», which is out of the scope of this chapter.

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    We assume that the name spaces of the concern specification and the match pattern of the same aspect are distinctive, otherwise adding the model (package) name to the element names is required.

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Appendix: The Woven Model for Secured CICO Applications

Appendix: The Woven Model for Secured CICO Applications

Figures 13, 14 present the woven model resulted after weaving the security (domain) aspect into the CICO (domain) base model. In these figures, the elements that belong only to the base model appear in white, the base model elements that are combined with aspect elements appear in bold and gray, and the elements that are added due to the aspect model, or more accurately due to the merge guidance, appear in gray.

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Reinhartz-Berger, I. (2013). When Aspect-Orientation Meets Software Product Line Engineering. In: Reinhartz-Berger, I., Sturm, A., Clark, T., Cohen, S., Bettin, J. (eds) Domain Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36654-3_4

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