Quality and economical aspects of software development are strictly related. Adaptability, as a feature of quality, fosters reuse and the resulting economies of scale. Domain anal...
Paolo Predonzani, Giancarlo Succi, Andrea Valerio,...
Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...
Many coupling measures have been proposed in the context of object-oriented (OO) systems. In addition, several studies have highlighted the complexity of using dependency analysis...
The success of an object-oriented software development project highly depends on how well the designers can capture the Hot Spots of the application domain, that is, those aspects...
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