Empirical assessment of the impact of structural properties on the changeability of object-oriented software

Arisholm, Erik

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2006.01.002

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Predicting the change proneness of a class (i.e., its volatility) can be used to aid design refactoring (e.g., removing "hot-spots"), choosing among design alternatives or assessing changeability decay [17].…”

Section: Objectives and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of Dynamic Coupling Measurement of Distributed Object Oriented Software Based on Trace Events

Babu¹

2011

IJCSEA

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Section: Objectives and Methodologymentioning

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Implementation of Dynamic Coupling Measurement of Distributed Object Oriented Software Based on Trace Events

Babu¹

2011

IJCSEA

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“…Their case study results show that their changeability assessment approach can provide more effective changeability information as compared to those approaches that rely only on the impact results. Arisholm (2006) carried out a study to assess the impact of structural properties of software on changeability. In their study, they assessed the structural attributes and the change profile metrics.…”

Section: Change Impact-based Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Assessment of Changeability of Open Source Software

Ayalew¹,

Mguni²

2013

CIS

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Among the maintainability sub-characteristics, changeability plays a critical role in analyzing the maintainability of software. Changeability is highly influenced by the dependencies that exist between the components of a system. Therefore, we need to have measurement mechanisms that can take into account the dependencies between components so as to determine the ease which modifications can be made to given software. This paper attempts to investigate the usefulness of three coupling metrics (CBO, Ce, and Ca) and one size/complexity metric (WMC) as predictors of changeability. The assessment is based on a case study of open source software known as OpenBravoPOS which is commonly used in the retail business and developed in Java. The results show that some of the coupling metrics can be used as good predictors of changeability.

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“…Arisholm [11] views changeability as a two-dimensional characteristic: it pertains to both the effort expended on implementing changes, and the resulting quality of the changes. These are also the quality characteristics we measured in the empirical study presented in this paper.…”

Section: Maintainability Of Object-oriented Softwarementioning

confidence: 99%