Modeling volatile concerns as aspects

Abstract

A rapidly changing market leads to software systems with highly volatile requirements. These must be managed in a way that reduces the time and costs associated with updating a system to meet these new requirements. By externalizing volatile concerns, we can build a stepping-stone for future management of unanticipated requirements change. In this paper, we present a method for handling volatile concerns during early lifecycle software modeling. The key insight is that aspect-oriented techniques can be applied to modularize volatility and to weave volatile concerns into the base software artifacts. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.