Software metrics gives developers and their client and users of Software information about the quality of their Software products. They are employed in taking decisions at various levels of Software Life Cycle (SLC). This paper presents a novel metric for measuring the readability of Software Source Code (SC). Maintenance changes (addition, removal or modification), though, are initially carrie...

Introduction: Appropriate definition of the distance measure between diffusion tensors has a deep impact on Diffusion Tensor Image (DTI) segmentation results. The geodesic metric is the best distance measure since it yields high-quality segmentation results. However, the important problem with the geodesic metric is a high computational cost of the algorithms based on it. The main goal of this ...

Software metrics for the procedural software development paradigm have been extensively studied. Metrics such as McCabe's cyclomatic complexity metric 1 and Halstead's Software Science metrics 2 are well known and frequently used to measure software complexity in the procedural paradigm. More recently, software metrics that are tailored to the measurement of design complexity in the object-orie...

Based on a set of case studies in eight European countries a method of software evaluation has been designed within ESPRIT Project SCOPE (Software evaluation and certification programme Europe). This method deals with several types of information: software characteristics and metrics, product and process information, and evaluation techniques. In order to be applicable the method is supported b...

Dozens of different software size metrics have been proposed and used. The most known ones are Lines of Code and Function Point metrics. Former one depicts the physical size and latter the functional size of software. It is known that one metric does not suit for all purposes. For example, Lines of Code may not be a suitable metric for early estimation, and Function Points is a too highlevel me...

This paper presents a new complexity metric for Object-Oriented (OO) design measurement to find at the design stage whether the classes become more complex, Moderate complex or less complex. The proposed metric is theoretically evaluated against the Weyuker’s properties as well as empirically evaluated against three open source software system. Furthermore, for validating the validity of new co...

Polymorphism is one of the main pillars of objectoriented paradigm. It induces hidden forms of class dependencies which may impact software quality, resulting in higher cost factor for comprehending, debugging, testing, and maintaining the software. In this paper, a new cognitive complexity metric called Cognitive Weighted Polymorphism Factor (CWPF) is proposed. Apart from the software structur...

* Corresponding author. Abstract Software Metric can provide essential information used for software development and maintenance processes. There have been also lots of researches on software metric tool helping users to use the software metric easily. However, many developers and project managers have suffered difficulties in using the tools. They could not trust on the result of metrics since...