Exploring the relationships between the understandability of components in architectural component models and component level metrics

Stevanetic, Srdjan; Zdun, Uwe

doi:10.1145/2601248.2601264

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“…In this paper, we take the change of understandability and testability as the indicators of architecture erosion. Understandability and testability are important quality attributes for architecture [13]. Firstly, we measure the two quality attributes.…”

Section: Calculating Erosion Degreementioning

confidence: 99%

A Multilevel Analysis Method for Architecture Erosion

Wang¹,

Wang²,

Li³

2019

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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During the evolution of software, improper change operations may cause architecture erosion. Architecture erosion creates problems on evolutionary costs, software performance and software quality. Many methods have been proposed to analyze architecture erosion. Architecture depends on the implementation of code, that is, architecture erosion is caused by code. However, few methods analyze the reasons for architecture erosion based on code. Besides, architecture is eroded with software evolution, but most methods do not analyze architecture erosion based on the change of software. In this paper, we propose a multilevel analysis method for architecture erosion. Our method contains three steps. Firstly, we detect the changed pairs based on two architectures by performing a multilevel change detection method. Secondly, we detect whether the corresponding code elements of changed pairs are erosion points by calculating erosion degree. Thirdly, we establish a cost-benefit model of repairing architecture erosion for repairing architecture erosion more effectively with repaired few erosion points. We illustrate our method through an open source project, and the experimental results indicate that our method can detect the erosion points of each level and the cost-benefit model is effectively.

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Section: Calculating Erosion Degreementioning

confidence: 99%

A Multilevel Analysis Method for Architecture Erosion

Wang¹,

Wang²,

Li³

2019

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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“…Component contains a group of classes and other components as well. A component provides one or two similar system functionalities [8]. Module consists of a large number of classes and sometimes a module is referred to as a package.…”

Section: Software Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stevanetic and Zdun [8] carried a study to examine the relationships between the effort required to understand a component and component level metrics that describe component's size, complexity and coupling. Correlation, collinearity and multivariate regression analysis were performed.…”

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Software Architecture Quality Measurement Stability and Understandability

Alenezi¹

2016

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Abstract-Over the past years software architecture has become an important sub-field of software engineering. There has been substantial advancement in developing new technical approaches to start handling architectural design as an engineering discipline. Measurement is an essential part of any engineering discipline. Quantifying the quality attributes of the software architecture will reveal good insights about the architecture. It will also help architects and practioners to choose the best fit of alternative architectures that meets their needs. This work paves the way for researchers to start investigating ways to measure software architecture quality attributes. Measurement of these qualities is essential for this sub-field of software engineering. This work explores Stability and Understandability of software architecture, several metrics that affect them, and literature review of these qualities.

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Supporting the analyzability of architectural component models - empirical findings and tool support

Stevanetic

Zdun

2018

Empir Software Eng

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Exploring the relationships between the understandability of components in architectural component models and component level metrics

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

A Multilevel Analysis Method for Architecture Erosion

A Multilevel Analysis Method for Architecture Erosion

Software Architecture Quality Measurement Stability and Understandability

Supporting the analyzability of architectural component models - empirical findings and tool support

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