Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesMeasuring the Quality of Software Modularization Using Coupling-Based Structural Metrics for an OOS System

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Measuring the Quality of Software Modularization using Coupling-Based Structural Metrics for an OOS System"
by M. Aruna, M.P. Suguna Devi, M. Deepa
in the First International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICETET\´08), pp.1130-1135, 16 July 2008

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper is a duplication of the original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"API-Based and Information-Theoretic Metrics for Measuring the Quality of Software Modularization,"
By Santonu Sarkar, Girish Maskeri Rama, and Avinash C. Kak
in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 14-32, January 2007

"Metrics for Analyzing Module Interactions in Large Software Systems"
by Santonu Sarkar, Avinash C. Kak, and N. S. Nagaraja
in the 12th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC\´05), 2005. pp. 264-271

The fundamental issue faced by the developers in todaypsilas environment is how to measure the quality of software modularization. In this paper a new set of metrics are proposed which measure the quality of modularization of an object-oriented software (OOS) system. A set of design principles are proposed to capture the notion of modularity and metrics are defined based on the principles. The coupling-based structural metrics measures the function-call traffic through the APIpsilas of the modules in relation to the overall function-call traffic. It is now widely accepted that the overall quality of a large body of software is enhanced when module interactions are restricted to take place through the published APIpsilas for the modules. The metrics can be tested on some large legacy-code business applications. The metrics can be validated from the results obtained on human-modularized versions of the software.