Dynamic Software Science with Applications

Two disciplines have been developed during the past few years for the study of computer software. Software physics has as its purpose the analysis of execution characteristics of programs. Basic measures of software work, time, and shortage occupancy are used to derive measures such as power, capaci...

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Published inIEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. SE-5; no. 5; pp. 497 - 504
Main Authors Oldehoeft, R.R., Bass, L.J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.09.1979
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Additives
Algorithms
Application software
Approximation
Computer languages
Computer science
CPU work
Language
language work
Physics
Power measurement
Programming languages
Science
Software
Software engineering
Software measurement
Software performance
software physics
software science
Tellurium
Time measurement
Velocity measurement
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Summary:Two disciplines have been developed during the past few years for the study of computer software. Software physics has as its purpose the analysis of execution characteristics of programs. Basic measures of software work, time, and shortage occupancy are used to derive measures such as power, capacity usage, and storage work, with applications to the choice of processor and device speeds. Software science is related to information theory. Occurrences of operators and operands in the text of programs are counted to provide measures for a number of relationships; among them are estimates for program length, program and language level, and programming time.
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ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.1979.234210