Paper Info
Title
Investigating Functional and Code Size Measures for Mobile Applications: A Replicated Study
Abstract
In this paper we apply a measurement procedure proposed by van Heeringen and van Gorp to approximate the COSMIC size of mobile applications. We compare this procedure with the one introduced by D'Avanzo et al. We also replicate an empirical study recently carried out to assess whether the COSMIC functional size of mobile applications can be used to estimate the size of the final applications in terms of lines of code, number of bytes of the source code and bytecode. The results showed that the COSMIC functional size evaluated with van Heeringen and van Gorp's method was well correlated to all the size measures taken into account. Nevertheless, the prediction accuracy did not satisfy the evaluation criteria and turned out ot be slightly worse than the one obtained in the original study and based on the approach proposed by D'Avanzo et al.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_20
Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Functional size measurement, COSMIC, Android mobile applications, Code size measure, LOC, Empirical study
Conference
9459
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
9
0.43
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Filomena Ferrucci174380.34
Carmine Gravino272147.71
Pasquale Salza39310.27
Federica Sarro463236.74