Homepage of the Research Project TOPPrax

1. Applying aspect-oriented programming in commercial software development.

Research Project funded by the research program "Softwareengineering 2006" of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.
Period: October 2003 - September 2006

2. Overview:
The joint research project TOPPrax shall demonstrate by means of real case studies that aspect-oriented software development has reached a level of maturity where it is able to master complexity of modern software systems.

The chosen approaches ObjectTeams and Caesar promise to improve software modularity in fields where conventional approaches fail because different concerns of the software overlap, interact in complex ways, and seemingly require contradictory structures of the software. The improved modularity is expected to increase understandibility, reusability, adaptability, and evolution.

While purely academic research in this area suggests a major benefit the actual practical evidence is still missing. Based on direct comparative studies TOPPrax will deliver an evaluation basis for future decisions. In order to make practical deployment more realistic, concepts, tools, and methodology will be completed in parallel to the case studies.

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3. Project leader:

Dr. Stephan Herrmann
Technische Universität Berlin
Fachgebiet Softwaretechnik

4. Contact:

info@topprax.de