Applying Structure and Code Metrics to Three Large-Scale Systems

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dc.contributor.authorKafura, Dennis G.en
dc.contributor.authorCanning, Jamesen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-19T14:37:08Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-19T14:37:08Zen
dc.date.issued1985en
dc.description.abstractThis work extends the area of research termed software metrics by applying measures of system structure and measures of system code to three realistic software products. Previous research in this area has typically been limited to the application of code metrics such as : lines of code, McCabe's Cyclomatic number, and Halstead's software science variables. However, this research also investigates the relationship of four structure metrics: Henry's Information Flow measure, Woodfield's Syntactic Interconnection Model, Yau and Collofello's Stability measure and McClure's Invocation complexity, to various observed measures of complexity such as, ERRORS, CHANGES and CODING TIME. These metrics are referred to as structure measures since they measure control flow and data flow interfaces between system components. Correlating the metrics to observed measures of complexity indicated that the Information Flow metric and the Invocation Measure typically performed as well as the three code metrics when project factors and subsystem factors were taken into consideration. However, it was generally true that no single metric was able to satisfactorily identify the variations in the data.en
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dc.identifierhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000003/en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000003/01/TR-85-31.pdfen
dc.identifier.trnumberTR-85-31en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/19721en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofHistorical Collection(Till Dec 2001)en
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dc.titleApplying Structure and Code Metrics to Three Large-Scale Systemsen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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