Effectiveness of Rank-Order Weighting Methods in AspectJ Software Evolvability Measuring

Abstract

The rapid growth of aspect-oriented applications increases the need to evaluate these applications. In the past, the software attributes have been tried to subjectively and objectively evaluate for the object-oriented applications. However, weighting the aspect-oriented software attributes is only subjective, depending mostly on experts’ judgments. Among the weighting techniques, the Rank-Order Weighting Method is one of the less subjective techniques to evaluate the attributes weighting approaches. In this study, this approach is applied to assigning the weights of AspectJ’s software attributes. A simulation was conducted to compare the target values and based values by using different rank-order weighting methods with the matching results by using Self Organizing Map (SOM). The evolvability results getting from experimenting with the two AspectJ software projects are discussed in this paper. According to the results, it is obvious that the rank ordered weighting method can be effectively applied in the area of software quality measuring area