Software metrics and application domain complexity

Author

Li, Wei ; Delugach, Harry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alabama Univ., Huntsville, AL, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

2-5 Dec 1997

Firstpage

513

Lastpage

514

Abstract

Software product metrics have been studied as a means to measure the complexity of software artifacts. Most software product metrics focus on capturing the complexity exhibited by the program. This paper suggests that there are two types of complexity in software artifacts: the structural complexity and the application domain complexity. The structural complexity is expressed in the program structure. The application-domain complexity is inherited from an application domain. Traditional software metrics are effective in measuring the structural complexity of software artifacts. However these metrics are not effective in measuring application-domain complexity

Keywords

object-oriented programming; software metrics; application domain complexity; object oriented programming; program structure; software artifacts; software complexity measurement; software product metrics; structural complexity; Application software; Computer bugs; Computer science; Lab-on-a-chip; Programming; Size measurement; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software systems; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1997. Asia Pacific ... and International Computer Science Conference 1997. APSEC '97 and ICSC '97. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8271-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.1997.640211

Filename

640211