A Coupling-based Complexity Metric for Remote Component-based Software Systems Toward Maintainability Estimation

2006 13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'06) Pub Date : 2006-12-06 DOI:10.1109/APSEC.2006.3

H. Washizaki, Tomoki Nakagawa, Yuhki Saito, Y. Fukazawa

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Remote-component-based software systems (CBS) must provide high maintainability to support operation over long periods of time and correspond to changes in enterprise requirements/environments. Measurements of the degree of complexity of a system are one technique for evaluating maintainability. However, conventional complexity metrics are unable to reflect the overall complexity of the system, because they do not incorporate a procedure to account for characteristics of CBS. To help maintenance work proceed smoothly, we propose a new metric that measures the coupling-based complexity of CBS by abstracting the target system's structure through a step-wise process and taking into consideration the characteristics of remote components. Our metric can be applied to CBS based on the Enterprise JavaBeans component architecture. As a result of experimental evaluations, it is found that our metric better reflects the maintainability than conventional metrics. It is also found that our metric is nonredundant with existing metrics such as coupling factor.

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面向可维护性评估的基于耦合的远程组件软件系统复杂性度量

基于远程组件的软件系统(CBS)必须提供高可维护性，以支持长时间的操作，并与企业需求/环境中的变化相对应。测量系统的复杂程度是评估可维护性的一种技术。然而，传统的复杂性度量不能反映系统的总体复杂性，因为它们没有包含一个说明CBS特征的过程。为了帮助维护工作顺利进行，我们提出了一种新的度量标准，通过逐步过程抽象目标系统的结构并考虑远程组件的特征，从而度量基于耦合的CBS的复杂性。我们的度量可以应用于基于Enterprise JavaBeans组件体系结构的CBS。通过实验评估，发现我们的度量比传统的度量更好地反映了可维护性。同时发现我们的度量与耦合因子等现有度量是不冗余的。

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