Paper Info
Title
Layer assessment of object-oriented software: A metric facilitating white-box reuse
Abstract
Software reuse has the potential to shorten delivery times, improve quality and reduce development costs. However software reuse has been proven challenging for most organizations. The challenges involve both organizational and technical issues. In this work we concentrate on the technical issues and we propose a new metric facilitating the reuse of object-oriented software based on the popular Chidamber and Kemerer suite for object-oriented design. We derive this new metric using linear regression on a number of OSS java projects. We compare and contrast this new metric with three other metrics proposed in the literature. The purpose of the proposed metric is to assist a software developer during the development of a software system in achieving reusability of classes considered important for future reuse and also in providing assistance during re-architecting and componentization activities of existing systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.jss.2012.08.041
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
DocType
Volume
object-oriented design,proposed metric,software system,layer assessment,software reuse,technical issue,kemerer suite,white-box reuse,development cost,future reuse,software developer,object-oriented software,software metrics
Journal
86
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0164-1212
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
20
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
George Kakarontzas18012.72
Eleni Constantinou2859.67
Apostolos Ampatzoglou333441.24
Ioannis Stamelos4124391.67