Complexity metrics for component-oriented software systems

Kharb, Latika; Singh, Rajender

doi:10.1145/1350802.1350811

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“…Many other research for software metrics had been proposed [82]- [89] however for this technique we use CBS metrics that is define in [34]. Their set of metrics requires the CBS system be presented in a graph connectivity.…”

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A Proposal for New Software Testing Technique for Component Based Software System

Hendradjaya¹

2018

IJEEI

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A Proposal for New Software Testing Technique for Component Based Software System

Hendradjaya¹

2018

IJEEI

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“…Thus, dependency metrics could have a real impact on the quality of the system delivered to the user. Many researchers [3,4,8,9,16,17] focuses on measuring the interaction complexity of integrated components. In the past, only a few papers based on graph theory addressed the evaluation of CBSS dependency [1-3, 5, 10, 14].…”

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Predicting Quantitative Functional Dependency Metric based upon the Interface Complexity Metric in Component based Software Systems: A New Approach

Mittal¹,

Bhatia²

2013

IJCA

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One of the major issues in component based software systems structuring and quality prediction is the interdependencies of system components. This paper proposes a novel technique for determining the strength of functional coupling in component based software systems. Authors propose Strength of Functional Dependency (SFD) metric, which is based upon two new metrics Operational Coupling complexity Index (OCI), and Instance Coupling complexity Index (ICI). It allows us to quantify the functional dependencies, formed by different kinds of operations and instances between these components. Compared to other existing dependency metrics, which are often based on number of operations or instance variables between the components only, authors consider operational complexity and instance variables complexity as a measure to how strong this dependency is and therefore promote a more systematic approach to the reasoning about modularity in component based software systems. This paper can be divided broadly into two parts. The first part quantifies interface operations and instance variables. The quantification is performed by considering the number of input, output parameters and their types. Based upon these factors of operations and instance variables, authors used analytical hierarchy approach (AHP) to assign weights to these factors and outcomes OCI, ICI and SFD. The second part shows the experimentation and validation of the proposed metrics. The advantages of the proposed method are discussed as well through a case study in this paper.

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“…Based on above metrics, the authors deduced results as shown in Table1. [16] adopted a similar approach. Authors proposed several interaction metrics for componentbased systems to finally measure the complexity of the system.…”

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Dependency Analysis using UML for Component-based Software Systems: An XMI Approach

Shareef¹,

Pandey²

2012

IJCA

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Component-based software development (CBSD) is an important area in the software engineering field. It has become one of the preferred streams for developing large and complex systems by integrating prefabricated software components which have not only made easier the process of software development but has also changed the ways for software professionals to develop software applications. A number of attempts have been made by software development teams, developers as well as researchers to improve component-based software development through improved measurement tools and techniques i.e. through an effective metrics. To manage and to study the different forms of dependencies that might occur in component based systems there has been little effort. The Component-based systems (CBS) are built up by integrating a number of these components in the system thus known as component assembly. In a CBS interaction can be in the form when one component interacts with another component, like one component provides an interface and other components use it, and also when an event is submitted by a component and it is received by other component. These interactions results in dependencies. Higher dependency has adverse effects thus leading to a complex system, resulting in poor understanding and higher maintenance cost. Dependency is represented in many forms one is by an adjacency matrix used in graph theory. However, this representation can check only for the presence of dependency between components and does not consider the type of interactions between these components. Interaction type can have a significant contribution to the complexity of the system. In this paper we present a technique in which component-based system is modeled using UML tool like ArgoUML 0.32, this tool is an open source and has the capability to export the component model in XMI (XML Meta-data Interchange) file format, this XMI file stores all the information related to a model, by applying parsing technique through a tool developed in Java, this technique can store the dependency along with other information like, provided interface (UML:Dependency.supplier) and required interface (UML:Dependency.client). This paper also presents the results of an experiment of the proposed approach and measures the interaction densities and dependency level of an individual component and for the system. General TermsComponent-Based System, Unified Modeling Language.

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Complexity metrics for component-oriented software systems

Cited by 26 publications

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A Proposal for New Software Testing Technique for Component Based Software System

A Proposal for New Software Testing Technique for Component Based Software System

Predicting Quantitative Functional Dependency Metric based upon the Interface Complexity Metric in Component based Software Systems: A New Approach

Dependency Analysis using UML for Component-based Software Systems: An XMI Approach

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