Architectural tradeoffs at the object level

Author

Evanco, William M.

Author_Institution

Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

53

Abstract

In this study, we discuss tradeoffs for the software architecture of object-based systems such as Ada83. External and internal complexities are specified for Ada packages and these complexities are related to the numbers of defects uncovered during testing using non-linear ordinal response models. The non-linear relationships among the software measures are exploited to identify optimal relationships between context coupling and the number of visible declarations in Ada packages

Keywords

Ada; object-oriented programming; program testing; software architecture; software metrics; software packages; Ada packages; Ada83; context coupling; external complexities; internal complexities; nonlinear ordinal response models; nonlinear relationships; object-based systems; object-level software architecture tradeoffs; optimal relationship identification; software defects; software measures; software testing; visible declarations; Computer languages; Genetic algorithms; Neural networks; Object oriented modeling; Packaging; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software quality; Software systems; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Metrics, 2002. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

ISSN

1530-1435

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1339-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/METRIC.2002.1011324

Filename

1011324