Goal models represent interests, intentions, and strategies of different stakeholders in early requirements engineering. When capturing requirements of socio-technical systems, goal models evolve quickly to become large and complex. Hence, understanding and maintaining such goal models become more challenging. Software engineering metric-based approaches have shown good potential in measuring s...

Our objective is to design a metric that can be used to measure the size of projects that install and configure COTS stand-alone software, firmware and hardware components. We call these IT infrastructure, as these components often form the foundation of the information system that is built on top of it. At the moment no accepted size metric exists for the installation and configuration of stan...

This paper presents Percentage of Shared Ideas (PSI), a metric for measuring the semantic cohesion of a class in object-oriented software. PSI uses information in a knowledge base to quantify the cohesiveness of a class’s task in the problem domain, allowing a clearer view of cohesion than code syntax provides. Furthermore, this metric is independent of code structure and could be calculated be...

automated Production Systems (aPS) are highly complex, mechatronic systems that usually have to operate reliably for many decades. Standardization and reuse of control software modules is a core prerequisite achieve the required system quality in increasingly shorter development cycles. However, industrial case studies aPS show companies still struggle with strategically reusing software. This ...

Version control systems are pervasively consulted nowadays to obtain software metric datasets. Accordingly, machine learning is applied predict different aspects of a including quality monitoring, influence analysis, etc. However, construction dataset challenging and the content may affect success learning-based models. In this study, we propose tool, MetricHunter, which able produce platform/l...

the present article discusses and presents a new and comprehensive approachaimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. this method has beendesigned on the basis of the software capability maturity model (sw-cmm) and themulti-level fuzzy inference model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. among themost important characteristics of this method one can mention si...

Automatic reusability appraisal is helpful in evaluating the quality of developed or developing reusable software components and in identification of reusable components from existing legacy systems; that can save cost of developing the software from scratch. But the issue of how to identify reusable components from existing systems has remained relatively unexplored. In this research work, str...

Method hiding plays a key role by serving the foundation for several guidelines in object-oriented software design. It brings about plethora of benefits such as easy comprehension, secured accessibility, modifiability without side-effects, modular testing, higher reliability etc. But, it has to be handled carefully since very low method hiding may result in insufficiently abstracted implementat...