Title :
Scale-Free Property in Large Scale Object-Oriented Software and Its Significance on Software Engineering
Author :
Yao Yi ; Huang Song ; Ren Zheng-ping ; Liu Xiao-ming
Author_Institution :
PLA Software Test & Evaluation Centre for Mil. Training, PLA Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Many real-world software systems become more and more complicated. Complex network theory is applied to study the large object-oriented software program with two versions in this paper. It is shown that large object-oriented software network is a scale-free network with power-law distribution of degree, low shortest path length and high clustering coefficient. In particular, with increase of softwarepsilas scale, scale-free property is more and more evident. Then some significant advices inspired from scale-free property are proposed for software engineering.
Keywords :
complex networks; object-oriented programming; software engineering; complex network theory; high clustering coefficient; large scale object-oriented software; low shortest path length; power-law distribution; scale-free property; software engineering; Application software; Automatic testing; Complex networks; Large-scale systems; Military computing; Network topology; Object oriented modeling; Programmable logic arrays; Software engineering; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Computing Science, 2009. ICIC '09. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Manchester
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3634-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICIC.2009.307
