Development and evaluation of a software repository reusable aspects

Software repositories provide access to various assets; however, it is not presently possible to access reusable aspects on these sites. The repositories and the publication and retrieval methods were designed and developed for software components. The presence of non-functional requirements in software repositories has been demonstrated, but these haven't been implemented for aspects-oriented languages. This paper presents an extension of the Unified Framework for Software Components specification to support aspects. The extended framework enables definition of a specification scheme based on the methods of Faceted Schemes. This specification scheme represents the basis for the development of a tool style “proof of concept”. Metrics were analyzed for the developed tool; these allowed us to evaluate the publication and retrieval of aspects, which showed optimal retrieval results.