Aspect-oriented software development with use cases

A refreshingly new approach toward improving use-case modeling by fortifying it with aspect orientation. Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action Since the 1980s, use cases have been a way to bring users into software design, but translating use cases into software has been an art, at best, because user goods often dont respect code boundaries. Now that aspect-oriented programming (AOP) can express crosscutting concerns directly in code, the man who developed use cases has proposed step-by-step methods for recognizing crosscutting concerns in use cases and writing the code in separate modules. If these methods are at all fruitful in your design and development practice, they will make a big difference in software quality for developers and users alike. Wes Isberg, AspectJ team memberThis book not only provides ideas and examples of what aspect-oriented software development is but how it can be utilized in a real development project. MichaelWard, ThoughtWorks, Inc.No system has ever been designed from scratch perfectly; every system is composed of features layered in top of features that accumulate over time. Conventional design techniques do not handle this well, and over time the integrity of most systems degrades as a result. For the first time, here is a set of techniques that facilitates composition of behavior that not only allows systems to be defined in terms of layered functionality but composition is at the very heart of the approach. This book is an important advance in modern methodology and is certain to influence the direction of software engineering in the next decade, just as Object-Oriented Software Engineering influenced the last. Kurt Bittner, IBM CorporationUse cases are an excellent means to capture system requirements and drive a user-centric view of system development and testing. This book offers a comprehensive guide on explicit use-case-driven development from early requirements modeling to design and implementation. It provides a simple yet rich set of guidelines to realize use-case models using aspect-oriented design and programming. It is a valuable resource to researchers and practitioners alike. Dr. Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, U.K., and author of Aspect-Oriented Database Systems AOSD is important technology that will help developers produce better systems. Unfortunately, it has not been obvious how to integrate AOSD across a projects lifecycle. This book shatters that barrier, providing concrete examples on how to use AOSD from requirements analysis through testing. Charles B. Haley, research fellow, The Open University, U.K. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a revolutionary new way to think about software engineering. AOP was introduced to address crosscutting concerns such as security, logging, persistence, debugging, tracing, distribution, performance monitoring, and exceptio...