Software product evaluation is a tool to choose among alternative software products for an intended application, but can also assist the developers of the software in judging the relevance of their product and in identifying missing functionalities. The suitability of software products is dependent on the intended application scenario and environment, which is why quantitative, objective metric...

Low module coupling is considered to be a desirable quality for modular programs to have. Previously, coupling has been de ned subjectively, and not quanti ed, making it di cult to use in practice. In this paper, we extend previous work to re ect newer programming languages, and quantify coupling by developing a general software metric system that allows us to automatically measure coupling. We...

Software architecture evaluation methods aim at identifying potential maintainability problems for a given architecture. Several of these methods exist, which typically prescribe the structure of the evaluation process. Often left implicit, however, are the concrete system attributes that need to be studied in order to assess the maintainability of implemented architectures. To determine this s...

The software clustering problem has attracted much attention recently, since it is an integral part of the process of reverse engineering large software systems. A key problem in this research is the difficulty in comparing different approaches in an objective fashion. In this paper, we present a metric that can be used in evaluating the similarity of two different decompositions of a software ...

The Design Metrics research team has been evaluating design documentation and calculating a number of design metrics. Design metrics are obtained from the artifacts available in the design stage of the software life cycle. Until recently the Design Metrics research team has hand calculated and recorded these metrics. A Software Design Analyzer (SDA) has been written to automate some of these ca...

In this paper we evaluate the exploitation of object technology as it is used in a test suite of game application software. We use several well-known metrics and apply them to both the game application software and a test suite of language processing tools to form a basis of comparing the two groups. We have developed a metric computation system that uses the g4re infrastructure to analyze the ...

Cohesion is an important factor used in evaluating software design quality and modularity. The cohesion of a module refers to the relatedness of the module components. In software engineering, highly cohesive modules are highly desirable due to their high reusability and maintainability. Cohesion is classified according to levels. Functional cohesion, the strongest level, refers to how closely ...

Vulnerability discovery and exploits detection are two wide areas of study in software engineering. This preliminary work tries to combine existing methods with machine learning techniques to define a metric classification of vulnerable computer programs. First a feature set has been defined and later two models have been tested against real world vulnerabilities. A relation between the classif...

Reuse-based software engineering is gaining currency as an approach for constructing software applications that are based on existing software components. Factors that have contributed to increased reliance on software components include increased dependability, reduced process risk, standards compliance and reduced time to market. Software components are usually delivered and handled as “black...