Title :
Measuring the Structural Quality of Business Applications
Author :
Curtis, Bill ; Sappidi, Jay ; Subramanyam, Jitendra
Author_Institution :
CAST, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Abstract :
This study summarizes results of a study of the internal, structural quality of 288 business applications comprising 108 million lines of code collected from 75 companies in 8 industry segments. Results are presented for measures of security, performance, and changeability. The effect of size on quality is evaluated, and the ability of modularity to reduce the impact of size is suggested.
Keywords :
business data processing; security of data; software performance evaluation; business applications; changeability measures; industry segments; performance measures; security measures; Encoding; Government; ISO standards; Industries; Measurement; Security; Benchmarking; Internal quality; Maintainability Performance efficiency; Software metrics; Software quality; Static analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Agile Conference (AGILE), 2011
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-426-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4370-3
DOI :
10.1109/AGILE.2011.48
