Title :
Mathematical assessment of object-oriented design quality
Author :
Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Informatics, Universij y of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
A method of link analysis employed for retrieving information from the Web is extended in order to evaluate one aspect of quality in an object-oriented model. The principal eigenvectors of matrices derived from the adjacency matrix of a modified class diagram are used to identify and quantity heavily loaded portions of an object-oriented design that deviate from the principle of distributed responsibilities.
Keywords :
eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; information retrieval; object-oriented programming; software metrics; Web; eigenvectors; information retrieval; mathematical assessment; matrices; modified class diagram; object-oriented design quality; software metrics; Algorithm design and analysis; Guidelines; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Object oriented modeling; Performance analysis; Programming profession; Scalability; Software maintenance; Software metrics;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSE.2003.1245306
