In order to support the maintenance of object-oriented software systems, the quality of their design must be evaluated using adequate quantification means. In spite of the curren...
The research presented here addresses the problem of change impact analysis CIA for object-oriented software. A major problem for developers in an evolutionary environment is th...
Michelle Lee, A. Jefferson Offutt, Roger T. Alexan...
Although traditional software metrics have widely been applied to practical software projects, they have insufficient abilities to measure a large-scale system’s complexity at h...
Yutao Ma, Keqing He, Dehui Du, Jing Liu, Yulan Yan
—With the increasing use of object-oriented methods in new software development there is a growing need to both document and improve current practice in object-oriented design an...
Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, Chris F. Kemer...
In avionics domain, the software applications grew to millions of source lines of code representing important development expenditures. To cut the costs, the avionics suppliers ar...