An approach to integrating aspects in agile development

Abstract

Separation of concerns is an important principle that helps to improve reusability and simplify evolution. The crosscutting concerns like security, and many others, often exist before implementation, in both the analysis and design phases, it is therefore worthwhile to develop aspects oriented software development approaches to handle properly the concerns and ensure their separation. Moreover agile methods attempt to reduce risk and maximize productivity by carrying out software development with short iterations while limiting the importance of secondary or temporary artifacts, however these approaches have problems dealing with the crosscutting nature of some stakeholders’ requirements. The work presented in this paper aims at enriching the agile development using aspect oriented approaches. By taking into account the crosscutting nature of some stakeholders’ requirements, the combination of the two approaches improves the software changeability during the repeated agile iterations.