Towards a software quality assessment model based on open-source statical code analyzers

Abstract

In the context of software engineering, quality assessment is not straightforward. Generally, quality assessment is important since it can cut costs in the product life-cycle. A software quality assessment model based on open-source analyzers and quality factors facilitates quality measurement. Our quality assessment model is based on three principles: mapping rules to quality factors, computing scores based on the percentage of rule violating entities (classes, methods, instructions), assessing quality as a weighted mean of the rule attached scores.