TY - GEN
T1 - Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
AU - Bakar, Normi Sham Awang Abu
AU - Boughton, Clive V.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
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 discuss the validation of results when using a combination of multiple measurement tools especially for products built using object-oriented techniques and languages. In this paper, we highlight four tools for collecting metric data, in our case from several Java-based open source projects. Our findings show that the tools provide different results for similar metrics and we discuss the methods used to validate the results reported by the tools. 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).
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 discuss the validation of results when using a combination of multiple measurement tools especially for products built using object-oriented techniques and languages. In this paper, we highlight four tools for collecting metric data, in our case from several Java-based open source projects. Our findings show that the tools provide different results for similar metrics and we discuss the methods used to validate the results reported by the tools. 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).
KW - metrics extraction tools
KW - object-oriented metrics
KW - open source systems
KW - software measurement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874233022&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICOS.2012.6417648
DO - 10.1109/ICOS.2012.6417648
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781467310468
T3 - 2012 IEEE Conference on Open Systems, ICOS 2012
BT - 2012 IEEE Conference on Open Systems, ICOS 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE Conference on Open Systems, ICOS 2012
Y2 - 21 October 2012 through 24 October 2012
ER -