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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Abstract 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.
AbstractList Software physics and software science are 2 disciplines that 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. The work performed by a program during execution can be related to its expression in a programming language. A distribution of the work performed across constituents of a program is meaningful and useful. The notion of work can provide a unifying focus for comparisons of interest within computer systems. The identification of work as the basis for these comparisons puts them all on the same foundation, makes possible comparisons that were not previously possible, and establishes the framework for further development. Appendices.
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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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
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