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In another perspective, [2], [5], [6] and [11] explored
AOP in the development of embedded systems for consumer
electronics, such as mobiles. These works are mainly related
to consumer’s needs, resources constraints, software product
line, and usability. In particular, Kartal and Schmidt [6]
conducted an investigated involving a platform of real-time
embedded systems for consumer electronics, specifically the
use of AOP at the application layer of such systems.
At the end, it becomes clear by the results of our systematic
review that, although there are various studies that
explore the use of AOP in the development of embedded
systems, there is a lack of synergy between both topics
(AOP and embedded systems), in compliance with the
fragmentation of the studies and their multidisciplinary. This
can be observed in [13] and [3]. For the lack of space, a
discussion about other areas are not presented herein.
III. CONCLUSION
In the last years, embedded system development has
been an increasing, important concern, bringing considerable
challenges to both academy and industry. Advances
in technology, for instance, increase in processing power,
together with new requirements and needs of users, as well
as shorter time-to-market and better quality, have contributed
to difficult this development. New development approaches
must be then investigated, such as the use of AOP. Thus,
main contribution of this paper was to present a detailed
panorama about how AOP has been explored in the development
of embedded systems. This review identified 25
primary studies that have explored the use of AOP in the
embedded system context. Furthermore, they are classified
into six main research areas, what can show the variability
of research that has been conducted. In spite of different
initiatives in that direction, we have observed that there is
a need of more studies that consolidate the advantages and
limitations of AOP in embedded systems.
Regarding research questions established for our systematic
review, it is observed that all of them were answered.
This suggests that, the general, knowledge about AOP in
the embedded system development has been mapped. We
believe that results presented in this work are representative
of the whole software engineering domain, since systematic
review has provided mechanism to achieve it.
Considering knowledge arisen from this work, it is possible
to identify interesting and new research lines, such as
(i) to explore the use of AOP in specific types of embedded
systems, such as critical or safety-critical systems; and
(ii) to conduct comparative studies using aspect-orientation
approach in different layers of the architecture of embedded
systems. For the future work, we intend to conduct again this
systematic review in order to update results of this work.
Acknowledgment: The authors would like to thank the
Brazilian funding agencies CNPQ, FAPESP, and FAPEAM.
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