Paper Info
Title
Towards a simplified implementation of object-oriented design metrics
Abstract
In order to compute metrics automatically, these must be implemented as software programs. As metrics become increasingly complex, implementing them using imperative and interrogative programming is oftentimes cumbersome. Consequently, their understanding, testing and reuse are severely hampered. In this paper we identify a set of key mechanisms that are involved in the implementation of design metrics and, more general, of design-related structural analyses: navigation, selection, set arithmetic, filtering and property aggregation. We show that neither of the aforementioned approaches offers a simple support for all these mechanisms and, as a result, an undesirable overhead of complexity is added to the implementation of metrics. The paper introduces SAIL, a language designed to offer a proper support to a simplified writing of design metrics and similar design-related analyses, with a especial emphasis on object-oriented design. In order to validate the expressiveness of SAIL the paper provides a comprehensive comparison with the other two approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/METRICS.2005.48
IEEE METRICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
object-oriented programming,software architecture,software metrics,software quality,SAIL language,design-related structural analysis,filtering,navigation,object-oriented design metrics,property aggregation,selection,set arithmetic,software complexity,software metrics,software programs
Object-oriented design,Systems engineering,Object-oriented programming,Software engineering,Reuse,Computer science,Software,Software metric,Software architecture,Programming complexity,Software quality
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1435
0-7695-2371-4
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.42
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristina Marinescu111710.99
Radu Marinescu293769.41
Tudor Girba372940.01