DocumentCode :
3235118
Title :
Modeling the object-oriented space through validated measures
Author :
Neal, Ralph D.
Author_Institution :
NASA/WVU Software Res. Lab., West Virginia Univ., Fairmont, WV, USA
Volume :
4
fYear :
1997
fDate :
1-8 Feb 1997
Firstpage :
315
Abstract :
In order to truly understand software and the software development process, software measurement must be better understood. A beginning step toward a better understanding of software measurement is the categorization of the measurements by some meaningful taxonomy. The most meaningful taxonomy would capture the basic nature of the object-oriented (O-O) space. The interesting characteristics of object-oriented software offer a starting point for such a categorization of measures. A taxonomy has been developed based upon fourteen characteristics of object-oriented software gathered from the literature. This taxonomy allows us to easily see gaps and redundancies in the O-O measures. The taxonomy also clearly differentiates among taxa so that there is no ambiguity as to the taxon to which a measure belongs. The taxonomy has been populated with thirty-two measures that have been validated in the narrow sense of Fenton (1991) using measurement theory with Zuse´s (1996) augmentation
Keywords :
object-oriented programming; software metrics; categorization; object-oriented software; object-oriented space; software development; software measurement; taxonomy; validated measures; Lab-on-a-chip; Laboratories; NASA; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Software engineering; Software measurement; Soil measurements; Taxonomy; Time measurement;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Snowmass at Aspen, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3741-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.1997.577518
Filename :
577518
Link To Document :
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