Improving the usability of the source code quality index with interchangeable metrics sets

The aim of this research is to improve the usability and acceptance of the quality index in practice. The quality index (QI) that is used to calculate acknowledged project effort is empirically evaluated in order to find interchangeable metric sets that can be used when calculating QI. In the evalua...

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Published in:Information processing letters 2010-02, Vol.110 (6), p.236-240
Main Authors: Živkovič, Aleš, Goljat, Uroš, Heričko, Marjan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceptance
Algorithmics. Computability. Computer arithmetics
Applied sciences
Code quality
Codes
Combinatorics. Ordered structures
Computer science
control theory
systems
Design metrics
Empirical analysis
Exact sciences and technology
Information processing
Mathematical analysis
Mathematics
Miscellaneous
Object-oriented metrics
Order, lattices, ordered algebraic structures
Programming theory
Quality
Quality index
Sciences and techniques of general use
Software design and implementation
Software metrics
Source code
Studies
Theoretical computing
Usability
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Summary:The aim of this research is to improve the usability and acceptance of the quality index in practice. The quality index (QI) that is used to calculate acknowledged project effort is empirically evaluated in order to find interchangeable metric sets that can be used when calculating QI. In the evaluation, ten metric sets with four metrics in the set were used to calculate ten different quality indexes that were then evaluated on 25 projects. The results indicate that six metric sets are interchangeable, making the calculation of the QI easy.
ISSN:0020-0190
1872-6119
DOI:10.1016/j.ipl.2010.01.002