{"id":1084,"date":"2014-02-04T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/aspect-oriented-software-development\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:49:25","slug":"aspect-oriented-software-development","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/205\/aspect-oriented-software-development-aosd","title":{"rendered":"Aspect-Oriented Software Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_aspect-oriented_software_development_mean\">What Does Aspect-Oriented Software Development Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is a software design solution that helps address the modularity issues that are not properly resolved by other software approaches, like procedural, structured and object-oriented programming (OOP). 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