A fundamental goal of software engineering is the development of high quality software at low cost. Attention to software quality is important in software development not only because of its influence on long-term corporate profitability, but primarily because of increasing persuasiveness of software in everyday life. There is no doubt that software quality is recognised as a key factor within ...

In order to the software and web measurement field becomes a more robust engineering discipline it is mandatory to start reaching a common agreement between researchers and other stakeholders about primitive concepts such as attribute, metric, measure, measurement and calculation method, scale, elementary and global indicator, measurable concept, among others. There are various useful recent-is...

Software metrics play an important role in measuring the quality of software. It is desirable to predict the quality of software as early as possible, and hence metrics have to be collected early as well. This raises a number of questions that has not been fully answered. In this paper we discuss, prediction of fault content and try to answer what type of metrics should be collected, to what ex...

Practical software security measurements and metrics are critical to the improvement of software security. We propose a metric to determine whether one software system is more secure than another similar system with respect to their attack surface. We use a system’s attack surface measurement as an indicator of the system’s security; the larger the attack surface, the more insecure the system. ...

Software metric-based estimation of project development effort is most often performed by expert judgment rather than by using an empirically derived model (although such may be used by the expert to assist their decision). One question that can be asked about these estimates is how stable are they with respect to characteristics of the development process and product? This stability can be ass...

eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based web applications are widely used for data describing and providing internet services. The design of XML schema document (XSD) needs to be quantified with software with the reusable nature of XSD. This nature of documents helps software developers to produce software at a lower software development cost. This paper proposes a metric Entropy Measure of Compl...

Software complexity metrics are used to predict critical information about reliability and maintainability of software systems. Object oriented software development requires a different approach to software complexity metrics. Object Oriented Software Metrics can be broadly classified into static and dynamic metrics. Static Metrics give information at the code level whereas dynamic metrics prov...

Software complexity metric is essential for minimizing the cost of software maintenance. Package level and system level complexity cannot be measured without class level complexity. This research addresses the class complexity metrics. This paper studies the existing class complexity metrics and proposes a new class complexity metric CCC (Complete class complexity metric), CCC metric is then an...

Trust is an important factor in any kind of network essential, for example, in the decision-making process. As important as the definition of trust is the way to compute it. In this paper we propose a model for defining trust based on graph theory and show examples of some simple operators and functions that will allow us to compute trust.