Semantic software metrics computed from natural language design specifications

Gall, C. S.; Lukins, Stacy K.; Etzkorn, Letha H.; Gholston, Sampson; Farrington, Phillip A.; Utley, Dawn R.; Fortune, Julie; Virani, Shamsnaz

doi:10.1049/iet-sen:20070109

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“…Decomposition by objects has been shown to produce better systems [Meyer 1997], with nouns often indicating objects in a software system. This has led to further research in understanding systems through the use of natural language analysis [Witte et al 2008;Gall et al 2008;Fry et al 2008]. Chasm relies on the natural ability of practitioners to use loaded terms, nouns and verbs, to express ideas.…”

Section: External Concept Tiersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A natural, tiered and executable UIDL for 3D user interfaces based on Concept-Oriented Design

Wingrave

LaViola

Bowman

2009

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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3D User Interface (3DUI) design and development requires practitioners (designers and developers) to represent their ideas in representations designed for machine execution rather than natural representations, hampering development of effective 3DUIs. As such, Concept-Oriented Design (COD) was created as a theory of software development for both natural and executable design and development. Instantiated in the toolkit Chasm, Chasm is a natural, tiered, executable User Interface Description Language (UIDL) for 3DUIs resulting in improved understandability, as well as reduced complexity and reuse. Chasm's utility is shown through evaluations by domain experts, case studies of long-term use, and an analysis of spaces.

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Section: External Concept Tiersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A natural, tiered and executable UIDL for 3D user interfaces based on Concept-Oriented Design

Wingrave

LaViola

Bowman

2009

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…A further series of tools, such as JDiff [52,53] and UMLDiff [54] are more aware of the semantic consequences of change in object-oriented (OO) environments like Java and can make more human-meaningful comparisons as a result. Tools for model differencing [55,56] and semantic distances [57] are also relevant here.…”

Section: Edit Distances and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying software evolution using artefacts’ shared information content

Arbuckle¹

2011

Science of Computer Programming

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a b s t r a c tIn order to study software evolution, it is necessary to measure artefacts representative of project releases. If we consider the process of software evolution to be copying with subsequent modification, then, by analogy, placing emphasis on what remains the same between releases will lead to focusing on similarity between artefacts. At the same time, software artefacts -stored digitally as binary strings -are all information. This paper introduces a new method for measuring software evolution in terms of artefacts' shared information content. A similarity value representing the quantity of information shared between artefact pairs is produced using a calculation based on Kolmogorov complexity. Similarity values for releases are then collated over the software's evolution to form a map quantifying change through lack of similarity. The method has general applicability: it can disregard otherwise salient software features such as programming paradigm, language or application domain because it considers software artefacts purely in terms of the mathematically justified concept of information content. Three open-source projects are analysed to show the method's utility. Preliminary experiments on udev and git verify the measurement of the projects' evolutions. An experiment on ArgoUML validates the measured evolution against experimental data from other studies.

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“…• Limited or no access to the component's source code. Many proposals have imposed suitable information (metadata) on the component [7], [33], [57], [58]. • Even if a component provider offers the source of the component, the component user may use a different development language [59].…”

Section: Literature Surveymentioning

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A Proposal for New Software Testing Technique for Component Based Software System

Hendradjaya¹

2018

IJEEI

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A Component-Based Software (CBS) system consists of integrated components that work together to perform specific tasks. Different components are selected and integrated to form a new software system. The components may have been developed by other third party, thus it is expected that the development time and effort can be reduced significantly. However just like any traditional development, the testing activities requires a specific evaluation to assess the software. Most of the components do not come with the source code, but only some information of the components. Thus, a specific testing technique is required. In this paper, we propose a new testing technique for Component-Based Software system. Older techniques had been developed based on traditional metrics, while other CBS system had different strategy from what we propose in this research. The technique help determining test adequacy criteria based on a set of complexity and criticality metrics of a CBS system. Based on this test adequacy criteria, our experimental studies have shown that it has assisted in reducing the number of test suite and test cases. For software testers, this technique would significantly reduce the testing time and effort in CBS development.

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Semantic software metrics computed from natural language design specifications

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

A natural, tiered and executable UIDL for 3D user interfaces based on Concept-Oriented Design

A natural, tiered and executable UIDL for 3D user interfaces based on Concept-Oriented Design

Studying software evolution using artefacts’ shared information content

A Proposal for New Software Testing Technique for Component Based Software System

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