Paper Info
Title
TDTool: threshold derivation tool.
Abstract
Software metrics provide basic means to quantify quality of software systems. However, the effectiveness of the measurement process is directly dependent on the definition of reliable thresholds. If thresholds are not properly defined, it is difficult to know, for instance, whether a given metric value indicates a potential problem in a class implementation. There are several methods proposed in literature to derive thresholds for software metrics. However, most of these methods (i) do not respect the skewed distribution of software metrics and (ii) do not provide a supporting tool. Aiming to fill the second gap, we propose a tool, called TDTool, to derive metric thresholds. TDTool is open source and supports four different methods for threshold derivation. This paper presents TDTool architecture and illustrates how to use it. It also presents the thresholds derived using each method based on a benchmark of 33 software product lines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2915970.2916014
EASE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Metrics, Thresholds, Software Systems
Data mining,Architecture,Systems engineering,Computer science,Software system,Software,Software metric,Reliability engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucas Veado160.84
Gustavo Vale2657.37
Eduardo Fernandes3262.03
Eduardo Figueiredo419521.12