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, comment: For this work, I was honoured with an award for writing one of the best theses at our faculty in 2009. The thesis was my first implementation of an empirical software experiment and can therefore be considered as rather explorative. Reading it could prove interesting for anyone who would like to get an impression of empirical research in Software Engineering and for those who try to get a hold of how productivity can be affected through aspect-oriented programming. , 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.