In this paper, we introduce 13 program slicing metrics for C language programs. These metrics use program slice information to measure the size, complexity, coupling, and cohesion...
Middleware for Web service compositions, such as BPEL engines, provides the execution environment for services as well as additional functionalities, such as monitoring and self-t...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...
While often defined in informal ways, software cohesion reflects important properties of modules in a software system. Cohesion measurement has been used for quality assessment, f...
How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure histo...
The paper proposes a new measure for the cohesion of classes in Object-Oriented software systems. It is based on the analysis of latent topics embedded in comments and identifiers...
Yixun Liu, Denys Poshyvanyk, Rudolf Ferenc, Tibor ...