A Complexity Metrics Set for Large-Scale Object-Oriented Software Systems

Although traditional software metrics have widely been applied to practical software projects, they have insufficient abilities to measure a large-scale system's complexity at high level so as to provide an overview of the system for developers. So, an adequate metrics set for large-scale softw...

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Published inThe Sixth IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT'06) p. 189
Main Authors Ma, Yutao, He, Keqing, Du, Dehui, Liu, Jing, Yan, Yulan
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2006
Subjects
Complex networks
Data analysis
Large-scale systems
Mood
Programming
Software engineering
Software measurement
Software metrics
Software quality
Software systems
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Summary:Although traditional software metrics have widely been applied to practical software projects, they have insufficient abilities to measure a large-scale system's complexity at high level so as to provide an overview of the system for developers. So, an adequate metrics set for large-scale software systems that can comprehensively measure the complexity at various levels is still challengeable. First, we summarize universal properties and implicit limitations of recognized object-oriented metric sets in the face of ever-increasing complexities of modern software systems. Large-scale software systems represent an important class of artificial complex networks. Then, from the perspective of software engineering, the main parameters of complex networks are introduced in detail. Furthermore, we integrate these metrics and parameters into a hierarchical complexity metrics set, which can measure the complexity at different levels of a large-scale software system. Eventually, we prove the feasibility of our metrics set through analyzing the data from a software project.
ISBN:9780769526874
076952687X
DOI:10.1109/CIT.2006.3