DocumentCode :
1958956
Title :
Relating Clusterization Measures and Software Quality
Author :
Csaba, B. ; Schrettner, L. ; Beszedes, Arpad ; Jasz, J. ; Hegedus, P. ; Gyimothy, Tibor
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Set Theor. & Math. Logic, Univ. of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
fYear :
2013
fDate :
5-8 March 2013
Firstpage :
345
Lastpage :
348
Abstract :
Empirical studies have shown that dependence clusters are both prevalent in source code and detrimental to many activities related to software, including maintenance, testing and comprehension. Based on such observations, it would be worthwhile to try to give a more precise characterization of the connection between dependence clusters and software quality. Such attempts are hindered by a number of difficulties: there are problems in assessing the quality of software, measuring the degree of clusterization of software and finding the means to exhibit the connection (or lack of it) between the two. In this paper we present our approach to establish a connection between software quality and clusterization. Software quality models comprise of low- and high-level quality attributes, in addition we defined new clusterization metrics that give a concise characterization of the clusters contained in programs. Apart from calculating correlation coefficients, we used mutual information to quantify the relationship between clusterization and quality. Results show that a connection can be demonstrated between the two, and that mutual information combined with correlation can be a better indicator to conduct deeper examinations in the area.
Keywords :
program testing; software maintenance; software quality; clusterization measure; correlation coefficient; mutual information; software clusterization degree; software comprehension; software maintenance; software quality; software testing; Conferences; Correlation; Entropy; Measurement; Mutual information; Software quality; Clusterization metrics; Correlation; Dependence cluster; Mutual information; Quality metrics; Software quality model;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2013 17th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Genova
ISSN :
1534-5351
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5833-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.2013.46
Filename :
6498485
Link To Document :
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