Title :
Toward software metrics for distributed software
Author :
Tsaur, Woei-Jiunn ; Horng, Shi-Jinn
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
With increasingly complicated distributed software we must do our best to establish a maintenance mechanism. The paper presents generalized software complexity metrics for measuring the computational complexity of distributed programs, and introduces the notion of communication complexity unit based on the smallest process communication group. We affirm that the smallest process communication group is a unifying mechanism for event and process abstraction whatever distributed programming languages are used and advocate it as a basically generalized communication complexity unit
Keywords :
communication complexity; distributed processing; software maintenance; software metrics; communication complexity unit; computational complexity measurement; distributed programming languages; distributed programs; distributed software; event abstraction; generalized software complexity metrics; maintenance; process abstraction; smallest process communication group; software metrics; Complexity theory; Computer languages; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Functional programming; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software systems; System software;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 Asia Pacific
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7171-8
DOI :
10.1109/APSEC.1995.496969
