CSMR
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
AbstractA large body of research in the measurement of software complexity has been focused on imperative programs, but little eort has been made for logic programs. In this paper,...
CSMR
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Many organizations are using measurement as a means to improve their software development and maintenance processes. A reasonable consensus has been reached about the main success...
CSMR
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Claims concerning the maintainability of object oriented software usually refer to encapsulation and inheritance mechanisms. However, if objects are perceived only from the code l...
CSMR
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Legacy systems are usually critical to the business in which they operate, but the costs of running them are often not justifiable. Determining whether such systems are worth keep...
CSMR
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
While it is widely agreed that architectural simplicity is a key factor to the success of large software systems, it is not obvious how to measure architectural complexity. Our ap...
CSMR
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Secure distributed applications often include code to authenticate users, verify access rights, and establish secure communication channels between software components (e.g., clie...
CSMR
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
A conceptual reengineering framework is presented that proposes extract, transform and rewrite as three characteristic steps to be performed within a reengineering cycle. The cycl...