• DocumentCode
    3092233
  • Title

    Measuring the Structural Quality of Business Applications

  • Author

    Curtis, Bill ; Sappidi, Jay ; Subramanyam, Jitendra

  • Author_Institution
    CAST, Fort Worth, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7-13 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    147
  • Lastpage
    150
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AGILE.2011.48
  • Filename
    6005498