TY - GEN
T1 - Using a combination of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
AU - Bakar, Normi Sham Awang Abu
AU - Boughton, Clive
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Software measurement can play a major role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. The measurement activities require appropriate tools to collect relevant metric data. Currently, there are several such tools available for software measurement. The main objective of this paper is to provide some guidelines in using a combination of multiple measurement tools especially for products built using object-oriented techniques and languages. In this paper, we highlight three tools for collecting metric data, in our case from several Java-based open source projects. Our research is currently based on the work of Card and Glass, who argue that design complexity measures (data complexity and structural complexity) are indicators/predictors of procedural/cyclomatic complexity (decision counts) and errors (discovered from system tests). Their work was centered on structured design and our work is with object-oriented designs and the metrics we use parallel those of Card and Glass, being, Henry and Kafura's Information Flow Metrics, McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity, and Chidamber and Kemerer Object-oriented Metrics.
AB - Software measurement can play a major role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. The measurement activities require appropriate tools to collect relevant metric data. Currently, there are several such tools available for software measurement. The main objective of this paper is to provide some guidelines in using a combination of multiple measurement tools especially for products built using object-oriented techniques and languages. In this paper, we highlight three tools for collecting metric data, in our case from several Java-based open source projects. Our research is currently based on the work of Card and Glass, who argue that design complexity measures (data complexity and structural complexity) are indicators/predictors of procedural/cyclomatic complexity (decision counts) and errors (discovered from system tests). Their work was centered on structured design and our work is with object-oriented designs and the metrics we use parallel those of Card and Glass, being, Henry and Kafura's Information Flow Metrics, McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity, and Chidamber and Kemerer Object-oriented Metrics.
KW - CBO
KW - Complexity
KW - Fanout
KW - Parameters
KW - Post-delivery defects
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=74549220356&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780889867765
T3 - Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2008
SP - 130
EP - 135
BT - Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2008
T2 - 9th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2008
Y2 - 16 November 2008 through 18 November 2008
ER -