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

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.