A Controlled Experiment for Measuring the Impact of Aspect-Oriented Programming on Software Development Time

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Computer Science - Software, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems), course: Informatik - Empirische Softwareforschung, language: English, abstract: In this document, a controlled experiment on aspect-oriented programming that was performed in the context of my bachelor thesis is described and evaluated. The experiment was designed to make the overall performance of software developers using object-orientation and aspect-orientation on a number of tasks comparable. The primary focus of the experiment laid on whether aspect-orientation has a positive impact on the development time when comparing its performance with the performance of the object-oriented approach on the same task.

Sebastian Kleinschmager is a passionate software engineer from Germany who has a special interest in creating a scientific foundation for his field. During his studies of applied computer science (Bachelor's degree) and business information systems (Master), he focused his research on conducting empirical experiments to evaluate programming techniques. Apart from his academic research, during his day-to-day job, he specializes in software development using the .NET Framework and the newest web technologies, putting theory into practice.